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Care management: is it working?
Author(s)	Jennifer Newton, Peter Ryan, Andrea Carman
Corporate Author	Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
Publisher	Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, London, 1996
Pages	136 pp
Source	The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, 134-138 Borough High Street, London SE1 1LB.
Keywords	Community care ; Social work ; Management [care] ; Social Services Departments ; Lambeth ; Westminster, City of ; Berkshire ; Durham [County].
Annotation	Care management is the term used to describe both the separation of staff responsible for assessment and care planning from those responsible for service provision, and the process by which the former activities should be undertaken. The aim of this research project was to evaluate how effectively care management was being implemented in four local authorities (Durham, Berkshire, Lambeth and Westminster), with a view to identifying key factors which assisted or impeded effectiveness. In particular, the project examined whether any particular model of care management had decisive advantages over any other. The following features of care management were examined in each local authority: the clients; client-centred care; care co-ordination; and the role of the care manager. The report concludes with a number of recommendations.
Accession Number	CPA-980210210 B
Classmark	PA: IG: QA: PF: 82LN: 82LY: 8BE: 8DU
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