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Adjusting the focus — [preparation for SAP by health and social care professionals]
Author(s)	Rebecca Ellinor
Journal title	Care and Health Magazine, issue 57, 16 March 2004
Pages	pp 6-9
Source	http://www.careandhealth.com
Keywords	Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Social Services Departments ; Health services ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services].
Annotation	In 2002, guidance was issued for health and social care professionals about a new way of assessing older people's needs. After 24 months of preparation for the Single Assessment Process (SAP), are professionals ready to put it into practice? While organisations across the public, private and voluntary sectors agree that SAP is a good idea, putting it into action is more easily said than done, and is an example of where government could have offered more direction. Some of the SAP key players identify difficulties including: obtaining commitment at the chief executive strategic level; the appropriateness of the accredited SAP tools; assessment overload; SAP in the context of the national IT agenda; engaging general practitioners (GPs); and data protection issues. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-040405201 A
Classmark	IK: 4C: PF: L: QAJ: QK6 *
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