In the current financial climate and with an inheritance of large hospitals situated mainly outside London, the development of local services presents a major challenge to health and local authorities. This paper has been prepared in five sections: (1) National policy developments in learning difficulties in the 1980s; (2) Information ...
TASH is the Association for the Severely Handicapped in the U.S.A. The aim of their 8th annual conference was to think about how everyone, including those with the most severe handicaps, can be fully involved in life in the community. Three main themes were dealt with at the conference: the ...
In late 1981, the DHSS published a study entitled 'Community Care' which examined some important issues in the development of community-based forms of care. The purpose of the study day was to discuss the document and to consider the policy implications for some of the issues it raised. Three themes ...
This account of recent developments in community based services for mentally handicapped people in this country derives from a study of available literature, focussing particularly on that published between 1975-1981. The main part of the report describes the kind of schemes and projects that have been developed to meet the ...
The nine people about whom this book is written all have severe disabilities yet they have rejected the idea that the only possibility for them is a place in a residential institution and have established homes of their own. The book challenges policy makers, architects and people working in statutory ...
The aim of this paper is to encourage all nursing students to think clearly, logically, consistently and coherently about nursing and to become consciously involved in using appropriate and relevant results of nursing research.
The purpose of this conference was to promote discussion about some of the issues that London district health authorities must face when deciding policies and planning services for children. The debate that took place illustrated a variety of views on the best ways of organising child health services, especially those ...
Epidemiology and policies for health planning is a guide to health planning according to need. It describes the health measures and sources of data available in England and sets out in detail the patterns of health and disease of different health care groups in the population, and what opportunities there ...
This document present the papers of the conference. The first discusses what the nursing process is. The second paper discusses the nursing process as the scientific method based on rational decision making, percolating to the bedside. If done properly, then the learning process was bound to follow for the action ...