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Accommodating health and social care needs — routine resource allocation in stroke rehabilitation
Author(s)	Davina Allen, Lesley Griffiths, Patricia Lyne
Journal title	Sociology of Health & Illness, vol 26, no 4, May 2004
Pages	pp 411-432
Source	http://www.blackwellpublishing.com
Keywords	Stroke ; Rehabilitation ; Needs [elderly] ; Management [care] ; Quality ; Qualitative Studies.
Annotation	Routine resource allocation processes in health and social care are explored. While there has been a small body of work which has drawn on Lipsky's (1980) insights into street level bureaucracy, few have taken seriously the opportunity offered by ethnography to explore in detail the work of front-line staff as a way of observing policy processes in action. Using ethnographic data from research into the continuing care of adults who have suffered a first acute stroke, the authors analyse how staff accommodated patient need, and consider the implications that this had for the quality, equality and equity of service provision. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-040811204 A
Classmark	CQA: LM: IK: QA: 59: 3DP
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