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'We now understand what dignity means' — [Dignity in Care campaign progress]
Author(s)	Anabel Unity Sale
Journal title	Community Care, issue 1761, 12 March 2009
Pages	pp 24-25
Source	www.communitycare.co.uk
Keywords	Health services ; Services ; Management [care] ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Standards of provision ; Leeds.
Annotation	The Dignity in Care campaign launched by the Department of Health (DH) in November 2006 has as one of its 10 standards a zero tolerance of all forms of abuse. Key to the campaign is the recruitment of some 4000 "dignity champions", one of the elements already introduced to a project in Leeds, which won the Dignity in Care Award in 2008. The Leeds project has used posters and postcards that sow older people in different health and social care settings, and incorporates the dignity standards into commissioning contracts with providers. This article looks at the campaign's progress, its support from Help the Aged and Age Concern, and Sir Michael Parkinson's involvement as national dignity ambassador since November 2008. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-090323204 P
Classmark	L: I: QA: TOB: 583: 88B *
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