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Author : Ewan Ferlie,David Challis,Bleddyn Davies
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015015524583
Author : Stephen P. Osborne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134673155
The innovative capacity of voluntary organizations has become a touchstone for their role in providing public services. Across the world there are increasing pressures on voluntary organizations to improve the quality and effectiveness of public services through innovation and change. This volume uses original research to assess the innovative capacity of voluntary organizations. It provides: * a conceptual framework for understanding the innovative capacity of voluntary organizations * empirical evidence detailing the nature and extent of innovation * an analysis of successful innovators in personal social services * the applicability of the for-profit model of innovation to non-profit organizations * an account of the contingent nature of voluntary organizations' relationship to their external environment and particularly their main funders. The development of a theory of innovation in non-market and nonprofit conditions makes this volume an important addition to organizational studies literature.
Author : David Challis,Paul Clarkson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351912198
The growing focus on performance review and monitoring means that awareness and use of performance indicators has increased throughout a number of public services. Set within a national context, this book reviews the historical development and measurement issues of performance indicators within social care and the public sector for older people. It then provides an approach to effective local performance measurement in services for older people and an organizing framework within which organizations can arrange their performance appraisal for older people's services. The development of performance review in social care of older people is examined, as is the process of developing local performance measures and engaging staff in enquiry and quality management. The book also reviews the process of developing performance indicators and their utilization at an agency level. Performance Indicators in Social Care for Older People will be of particular interest in the UK for local service providers who are developing approaches for local performance review. It will also be of interest internationally, especially in countries where services for older people are currently developing in a similar direction.
Author : Bleddyn Davies,José Fernández
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351762625
This title was first published in 2000: Equity and Efficiency Policy provides a completely new perspective on post-reform community care, analyzes its fairness, effectiveness and efficiency in a new way and uses its powerful new techniques applied to a major national collection of evidence to suggest how to develop the Modernization Agenda. It - describes, for the first time, how differences in the levels of each of the main services alone and in combination affect a wide range of user and carer benefits; - uses this knowledge to analyze in a new way and make policy proposals about some of the pressing policy issues of the government’s Modernization Agenda.
Author : Bleddyn Davies,David Challis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429826788
First published in 1986, Matching Resources to Needs describes the PSSRU’s community care approach and analyses the first of the community care projects, a seminal set of experiments in the care of the elderly at high risk of institutional long-term care. The experiments create field structures which provide incentives to improve efficiency, decentralised power over resources being balanced by enhanced accountability. The first part explains the approach, analyses the causes of inefficiency in ~British social care, and reviews British and American evidence about the relationships between resources, recipient characteristics and outcomes. The approach is compared with some two dozen American experiments hitherto unknown in the UK. It describes the design of the project and its evaluation. The authors then examine the experimental results. They show that cost and welfare effects are better and the costs of outcomes are lower for recipients of community car. The third part of the book uses observational and other data to explore the relationships between structures, assumptive worlds, causal processes and outcomes and their costs. It also analyses the performance of the core tasks of entrepreneurial case management for types of case. The book concludes with a discussion of the broader implications of this approach to community care.
Author : Kerry Brown,Stephen P. Osborne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134332670
The context and environment of public services is becoming increasingly complex and the management of change and innovation is now a core task for the successful public manager. This text aims to provide its readers with the skills necessary to understand, manage and sustain change and innovation in public service organizations. Key features include: the use of figures, tables and boxes to highlight ideas and concepts of central importance a dedicated case study to serve as a focus for discussion and learning, and to marry theory with practice clear learning objectives for each chapter with suggestions for further reading. Providing future and current public managers with the understanding and skills required to manage change and innovation, this groundbreaking text is essential reading for all those studying public management, public administration and public policy.
Author : Chris Phillipson,Miriam Bernard,Patricia Strang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040008348
Originally published in 1986, Dependency and Interdependency in Old Age presents papers from the British Society of Gerontology annual conference in 1985. The areas covered include: the sociology of ageing, methodological issues, evaluations of service provision, ethnographies of growing old, historical studies and political perspectives on ageing. A creative dialogue between the proponents of these themes was urgently needed at the time and it was hoped that this volume would stimulate such a discussion.
Author : David Challis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351153546
Improving equity and efficiency in the long-term care of older people is an international concern, with governments attempting to ensure that policies and practice develop so that resources are used to best effect. This requires good quality evidence founded on sound theory. This volume honours the outstanding contribution of Bleddyn Davies to this field, bringing together perspectives of scholars and practitioners from many countries including the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Sweden and the USA. Contemporary policy dilemmas are considered, leavened by professional anecdote. A chapter from Davies himself, reflecting on the origins of the PSSRU (Personal Social Services Research Unit), concludes the volume that also features a full listing of his books and monographs, which will prove invaluable to those seeking to engage with his contribution to the field. This volume will greatly interest academics in social policy, social work, gerontology and social care as well as professionals in the field.
Author : Danita H. Stapleton,Sekeria Bossie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783031408892
This textbook fosters a deeper understanding of how home healthcare goals for older adults can be achieved through interprofessional collaboration. The contributors create a context where allied health and healthcare professionals can acquire and exchange knowledge about their diverse disciplines and practices for the betterment of the home care population. The book also reinforces what the COVID-19 pandemic made quite apparent to health institutions and providers: patients can receive adequate and acceptable care within the home setting. The pandemic also highlighted the important role that interprofessionalism can play in attaining desired patient outcomes. Statistics reveal that the population of persons over the age of 65 years is the largest that it has ever been. This volume focuses on older adult patients because caring for these individuals from an interprofessional perspective is now more important than ever. Through the ten chapters of this edited book, the contributors including home care providers offer their perspectives on interprofessional collaboration and the provision of quality home care services. They use the Interprofessional Education Collaborative's (IPEC) four core competencies as a framework for improving the collaborative practice of home health care for older adult patients with complex medical issues. Among the topics covered: Medical Social Work and Case Management Skilled Nursing Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Behavioral Health Care Other Relevant Home Care Services: Prosthetics and Orthotics, Pharmacy Services, Durable Medical Equipment and Nutritional Services Home Care for Older Adults Using Interprofessional Teams is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in health or allied health programs and can be used as a primary text for interprofessional education courses. The text benefits students, instructors, and faculty who have stakes in obtaining positive health outcomes for older adult patients. Today, more and more programs are requiring the development of interprofessional competencies. This book provides a forum where students can obtain in-depth knowledge of teaming, as well as the roles and functions of various care providers.
Author : Kathleen McLaughlin,Ewan Ferlie,Stephen Osborne P
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134544158
In this original, comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of New Public Management in the UK, leading international authorities present evaluations of current thinking and highlight the challenges for the future.
Author : David Challis,Robin Darton,Karen Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429839986
First published in 1998, creating a discourse on community care, differences in of care management; links between assessment, secondary health care and care management by addressing several areas which provide opportunities for successful service development.
Author : Anthea Tinker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317886129
Older People in Modern Society is an established classic text in its field and through subsequent editions its reputation and that of its author has grown. In this fourth and renamed edition, Anthea Tinker synthesises and discusses a wide range of literature about older people, drawing from fields such as medicine, sociology and social policy and using primary source material to illustrate the text. She also introduces a number of topics that have attained greater importance since publication of the third edition in 1992, for example, continuing care and the abuse of older people.
Author : Ewan Ferlie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317638322
Analysing Health Care Organizations seeks to link the world of health policy and management with the academic field of organization studies in a novel and additive way. It outlines the main developments in UK health care management apparent over the last thirty years and explores how they might be (re)seen with the application of some important organizational theories and perspectives. This book draws out contemporary and enduring themes from current literature on health care organization and considers them from a range of theoretical perspectives. Drawing on robust areas of research and some key academics who contribute to work in this field, it is a book relevant both to experts in the field and to those seeking to develop an understanding of health care organization from a theoretical perspective. Analysing Health Care Organizations provides a state of the art introduction foundation for subsequent works that will extend its content; providing a broad introductory overview of this theoretical terrain and setting the scene for further research.
Author : Paul Midford,John Creighton Campbell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137402639
These essays by no means cover all areas of interest in long-term care programs, but they offer new insights (and intriguing questions for future research) about how differently policies in this important area can be carried out in different countries.
Author : Julia Twigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781134629558
Community care lies at the intersection of day-to-day life and the public world of service provision. Using the lens of one particular activity - bathing - this book explores what happens when the public world of professionals and service provision enters the lives of older and disabled people. In doing so it addresses wider issues concerning the management of the body, the meaning of carework and the significance of body care in the ordering of daily life. Bathing - the Body and Community Care provides an engaging text for students and will be of interest to a wide range of audiences, both social science and health science students and nursing and allied professionals
