Recent years have seen a shift in health care and social work that has moved collaborative work to the center of everyday practice. But has that change led to better outcomes for the people who use these social services? Evaluating Outcomes in Health and Social Care takes up that question—as well as the crucial underlying question of how best to measure those outcomes. This new edition brings the book fully up to date with the latest research findings and offers more tools, frameworks, and international examples of best practices to aid practitioners as they evaluate partnerships.

Evaluating Outcomes in Health and Social Care (Better Partnership Working)

Politics & Social Sciences

O'Flynn, Janine

Dickinson, Helen

Social Sciences

Policy Press

Collaborative working is on the rise in social work and health care these days, especially in complicated areas such as safeguarding children, working with community mental health services, and providing services for the elderly or disabled children. But collaborative working brings with it a number of practical difficulties. This book focuses on interprofessional education (IPE), which is generally seen as a key solution to those difficulties. It provides a thorough introduction to IPE in health care and social work and examines research evidence in detail, providing essential practical advice.

Interprofessional Education and Training (Better Partnership Working)

Carpenter, John

Working in teams may sound simple, but in reality it is often quite challenging—especially within complex health and social care systems. This fully revised and updated second edition of Working in Teams brings together cutting-edge thinking about teamwork and considers how this thinking can be turned into practice within interagency settings. It introduces a range of theories, models, and research to demonstrate both the benefits and pitfalls inherent in teamwork in collaborative settings and how interagency teams may be made to function more effectively. A practical and accessible guide illustrated throughout with real-life examples, this book has a no-nonsense approach and breadth that make it an essential resource for students, practitioners, team leaders, managers, and policy makers across all components of health and social care systems.

Working in Teams (Better Partnership Working)

Miller, Robin

Jelphs, Kim

Working in Teams

Bristol University Press

Beavers are widely recognised as a keystone species which play a pivotal role in riparian ecology. Their tree felling and dam building behaviours coupled with a suite of other activities create a wealth of living opportunities that are exploited by a range of other species. Numerous scientific studies demonstrate that beaver-generated living environments that are much richer in terms of both biodiversity and biomass than wetland environments from which they are absent. Emerging contemporary studies indicate clearly that the landscapes they create can afford sustainable, cost-effective remedies for water retention, flood alleviation, silt and chemical capture. The authors of this handbook are all beaver experts and together they have a broad range of scientific knowledge and practical experience regarding the ecology, captive husbandry, veterinary science, pathology, reintroduction and management of beavers in both continental Europe and Britain.

The Eurasian Beaver Handbook: Ecology and Management of Castor Fiber (Conservation Handbooks)

Science & Math

Rosell, Frank

Campbell-Palmer, Róisín

Parker, Howard

Gow, Derek

Biological Sciences

Pelagic Publishing

Beavers are widely recognised as a keystone species which play a pivotal role in riparian ecology. Their tree felling and dam building behaviours coupled with a suite of other activities create a wealth of living opportunities that are exploited by a range of other species. Numerous scientific studies demonstrate that beaver-generated living environments that are much richer in terms of both biodiversity and biomass than wetland environments from which they are absent. Emerging contemporary studies indicate clearly that the landscapes they create can afford sustainable, cost-effective remedies for water retention, flood alleviation, silt and chemical capture. The authors of this handbook are all beaver experts and together they have a broad range of scientific knowledge and practical experience regarding the ecology, captive husbandry, veterinary science, pathology, reintroduction and management of beavers in both continental Europe and Britain.

The Eurasian Beaver Handbook: Ecology and Management of Castor Fiber (Conservation Handbook)

As inter-agency working has grown increasingly important within UK public services, inter-professional education (IPE) has been perceived as a solution to a number of the practical difficulties associated with this way of working. Particularly, IPE is regarded as crucial within areas such as safe guarding children, community mental health services, older people's services and services for disabled children where the quality of care needs to be delivered by seamless multi-professional teams.Written by leading specialists in the field, this book provides a thorough introduction to IPE in health and social care, examining the issues in detail and providing much needed practical advice. The authors summarise recent trends in policy, establish what we can learn from research and practice and provides readers with an essential set of IPE 'do's and don'ts'. It will be a core text for undergraduate and post-qualifying interprofessional students on health and social care courses, as well a students of nursing, social work, social policy and medicine.

Partnerships continue to be a prominent feature of health and social care policy and one which seems set to stay. Despite this, partnerships have not actually been demonstrated to improve service user outcomes. This book argues that, rather than a lack of an impact per se, this is a result of the massive challenge faced by partnership evaluations and suggests we need to effectively evaluate the outcomes of partnerships - or else the concept risks losing legitimacy. The book provides an introduction to evaluation, outcomes and partnerships, summarising recent trends in policy and research, setting out useful frameworks and approaches and aiding policy makers and practitioners to more effectively evaluate partnerships. Short, accessible and designed for everyday use, the book is aimed at students, practitioners, managers and policy makers in health and social care.

Rationing in health care: The theory and practice of priority setting

The challenges faced by those rationing scarce health care resources have intensified following the economic downturn. This book tackles this challenge by exploring the latest thinking and practice on priority setting methods. In an accessible style the book brings together theories, practice and evidence from a wide range of disciplines and provides practical, evidence-based prescriptions for decision makers. It will be of interest to all health care managers and students of health care policy and management.

Robinson, Suzanne

Williams, Iestyn

The challenges faced by those rationing scarce health care resources have intensified following the economic downturn. This book tackles this challenge by exploring the latest thinking and practice on priority setting methods. In an accessible style the book brings together theories, practice and evidence from a wide range of disciplines and provides practical, evidence-based prescriptions for decision makers. It will be of interest to all health care managers and students of health care policy and management.

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Evaluating Outcomes in Health and Social Care (Better Partnership Working)

Interprofessional Education and Training (Better Partnership Working)

Working in Teams (Better Partnership Working)

Working in Teams

The Eurasian Beaver Handbook: Ecology and Management of Castor Fiber (Conservation Handbooks)

The Eurasian Beaver Handbook: Ecology and Management of Castor Fiber (Conservation Handbook)

Interprofessional Education and Training (Better Partnership Working)

Evaluating Outcomes in Health and Social Care (Better Partnership Working)

Rationing in health care: The theory and practice of priority setting

Rationing in health care: The theory and practice of priority setting