Product Description: The Better Partnership Working series is a set of brief volumes aiming to offer practical support to people working in partnership across health and social care services and to provide helpful frameworks for making sense of the complexity involved in any partnership work...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together for the first time a substantial group of advocates and critics of the personalization agenda in English social services in order to debate key issues and attempt to find common ground. Practitioners, service users, and academics offer differing perspectives on the practicalities and controversies associated with the implementation of personalized approaches, which the book’s conclusion then examines in order to attempt to make sense of the divergent accounts and find a value-based approach to personalized care that all sides could agree on...read more

Product Description: New austerity measures have substantially changed the landscape for social and health care in the United Kingdom. Fully updated to reflect key developments under the New Labour and Coalition governments, this second edition of Understanding Health and Social Care provides an up-to-date guide to the increasingly important partnership between health and social care workers...read more

Product Description: In UK government, commissioners perform the vital task of ensuring that health and social care services meet the needs of the people who use them. Essential for everyone involved in the planning and delivery of these services, this book comprehensively explores what commissioning is, its past, and its future...read more

Product Description: This edited book provides a hard-hitting and deliberately provocative overview of the relationship between evidence, policy and practice, how policy is implemented and how research can and should influence the policy process. It critiques the notion of 'evidence-based practice', suggesting instead a more inclusive idea of 'knowledge-base practice', based in part on the lived experience of service users...read more

Product Description: Partnership Working in Health and Social Care adopts a thematic approach to health and social care partnerships. With chapters by leading international commentators, the book covers key topics in partnership with a dual focus on both policy and practice.

Product Description: This manual contains everything needed to run a one-day course, including exercises, statistics, and handouts. It is designed to: place the work of social services in its financial and political contexts; provide an overview of how local authorities and their social services are financed; enable course participants to understand the fundamental issues involved in local government finance; encourage them to get involved in debates about local democracy and the funding of social services...read more