The importance of extra-care housing in the current policy context is illustrated by the level of financial investment. Each year since 2003 the Department of Health has provided capital funding

A systematic review and indirect comparison meta-analysis. Current best evidence supports using immediate release methylphenidate as first-line treatment for most adults with ADHD.

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The International Federation of Social Workers is concerned about the conditions of displaced individuals, the very existence of displacement and the political strategies and programmes, which may have caused it.

Indeed we have only the most general ideas of what we are trying to produce, what constitutes the essential skill of the social worker, and consequently still more varied ideas

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These guidelines have been prepared by Project 3.3, ‘Involvement of Service Users and Carers’, a project of the University of Dundee, University of Stirling and the Open University in Scotland,

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