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Dignity in care
— Adult Services Practice Guide 9 | | Author(s) | Elaine Cass, Diana Robbins, Angela Richardson |
| Corporate Author | Social Care Institute for Excellence - SCIE |
| Publisher | Social Care Institute for Excellence - SCIE, London, November 2006 |
| Pages | 213 pp (Practice Guide 9) |
| Source | SCIE, Fifth floor, 2-4 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5BH. www.scie.org.uk/publications |
| Keywords | Health services ; Services ; Management [care] ; Rights [elderly] ; Performance ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | This guide has been designed for people who want to make a difference and improve standards of dignity in care. It provides information for service users on what they can expect from health and social care services, and a wealth of resources and practical guidance to help service providers and practitioners in developing their practice, with the aim of ensuring that all people who receive health and social care services are treated with dignity and respect. This guide is part of a wider Department of Health (DH) campaign to promote dignity for older people in the health and social care sectors. The issue of dignity features prominently in the framework for health and social care services. The Department of Health's Green Paper, 'Independence, well-being and choice' (2005) and subsequent White Paper, 'Our health, our care, our say' (2006), are set around seven key outcomes identified by people who use services, one of which is personal dignity and respect. The Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) has incorporated these into their assessment framework, 'A new outcomes framework for performance assessment of adult social care' (2006). The Department of Health's National Service Framework for Older People (2001) also supports a 'culture change so that all older people and their carers are always treated with respect, dignity and fairness', and its 'Essence of Care: Patient-focused benchmarking for health care practitioners' (2003) offers a series of benchmarks for practice on privacy and dignity. SCIE's Practice Guide has been twice revised since first being published in November 2006. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080225202 E |
| Classmark | L: I: QA: IKR: 5H: 583 |
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