Product Description: Psychiatric Nursing Revisited is a detailed and empirical study of acute mental health nursing and patient activity that joins a family of similar successful studies, such as Altschul (1972); Towell (1975); Cormack (1976, 1983); Faulkner et al (1994) and Hurst (1993, 1995)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work examines the introduction of business-originated concepts of quality insurance which personal social services are confronted with in Europe. The orientation towards this approach should raise professionalism. There is evidence that the specificities of personal social services are not always taken into account when it comes to introducing market values and mechanisms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Based on detailed research in twenty-five local authorities, this book focuses on initial experiences of, and attitudes towards, operating within social care markets. It examines perspectives on and capacities to implement the community care reforms, and locates them within conceptual and policy frameworks which help us identify implications for local authorities, private and voluntary sector providers, central government and the research community. Generally, local authorities have moved from a relatively crude anti-commercialism to a belief that the market is capable of delivering benefits to users and carers. However, there is relatively little evidence that authorities have developed understandings of how to use the market to achieve social goals.This is a fascinating story of how social care markets are actually operating. It is the second book to arise from this large scale longitudinal research, and is a worthy successor to the widely welcomed first book, Social Care in a Mixed Economy.

Product Description: This book describes the mixed economy of community care in England and analyses the efforts and activities of local authorities to promote and develop it. It is based on national documentary and statistical evidence and on more detailed research with twenty-four local authorities; and includes a case study on the transfer of residential homes to the independent sector...read more

Product Description: Based on national documentary and statistical evidence and on more detailed research with 24 local authorities, this study describes the mixed economy of community care in England and analyzes the efforts and activities of local authorities to promote and develop it...read more

Product Description: Book by Wistow, Gerald