What mindfulness has to offer health and social care
I can’t quite remember when I first heard about mindfulness – I think it was four or five years ago through my clinical work as a psychotherapist. Then a colleague
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IRISS Insight 24: Delivering integrated care and support
This document is based on a report prepared for ADSW at the time of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Bill (Petch, 2013) and seeks to distill key evidence to
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Strategic partnerships in Scotland
Broad and international literature exists on networked governance which has both described and informed recent transformations in local government. Reforms in the UK have led to the development of strategic
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Modelling needs-based personal budgets
A fundamental question for social policy is how accurately costs can be predicted from individual needs and characteristics. In the UK this question has added salience due to recent policy
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Evidence on personal budgets and personalization
Over the past five years, social care has been experiencing a period of change described as ‘transformational’. It has largely been based on a model initiated by the organisation ‘In
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Integrated care for older people with complex needs
Industrialised countries face the common challenge of caring for a growing number of older people. In 2010, 15 per cent of the population of countries belonging to theOrganisation for Economic
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Findings series 40 – Glasgow’s ‘excess’ mortality
This paper provides a summary of findings from a report which describes the collection and analysis of new data for a number of theories that have been proposed to explain
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Prison suicides betray problems with our criminal justice system
Nick Clegg has launched the Department of Health’s latest action plan for mental health services, Closing the Gap: priorities for essential change in mental health. While the report was overshadowed
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Myths and Realities 15: Our ethnicity and identity- what does it all mean? (Podcast)
Myths and Realities 15 looks at whether the public’s obvious delight and celebration of all the diverse members of Team GB, irrespective of individual ethnicities and identities, marks a significant
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Myths and Realities 16: Are ‘friends’ the new ‘family’? (Podcast)
Changes in how we live, including increases in geographical mobility and single households, can affect the intimate relationships we form with others. For some, friendships form the key support network
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