Co-ordinating Community Care Paperback / softback
by John Ovretveit
Paperback / softback
Description
An exploration of how people from different professions and agencies work together to meet the health and social needs of people in a community.
It is about making the most of different skills to meet people's needs and creating satisfying and supportive working groups.
It is the details of making community care a reality. The effectiveness and quality of care a person receives depends on getting the right professionals and services, and also on the support given to the person's carers.
Services must be co-ordinated if the person is to benefit, but co-ordination is more difficult with the increasing change, variety and complexity of health and social services in the 1990s. This book challenges the assumptions that services are best co-ordinated by multiprofessional and multi-agency teams, and that community care teams are broadly similar.
It demonstrates when a team is needed and how to overcome differences between professions, and between agency policies and philosophies. Drawing on ten years of consultancy research with a variety of teams and services, the author gives practical guidance for managers and practitioners about how to set up and improve co-ordination and teamwork.
The book combines practical concerns with theoretical depth drawing on organization and management theory, psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, economics and government studies.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, bibliography, refere
- Publisher:Open University Press
- Publication Date:16/06/1993
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- ISBN:9780335190478
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, bibliography, refere
- Publisher:Open University Press
- Publication Date:16/06/1993
- Category:
- ISBN:9780335190478
