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Managers in long-term care
— their quality and qualities | | Author(s) | Malcolm L Johnson, Lesley Cullen, Demi Patsios |
| Corporate Author | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF |
| Publisher | Policy Press, Bristol, 1999 |
| Pages | 87 pp |
| Source | The Policy Press, 34 Tyndall's Park Road, Bristol BS8 1PY. (Orders should be sent to: Biblios, Star Road, Partridge Green, West Sussex RH13 8LD.) |
| Keywords | Personnel ; Organisation of care ; Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Management [care] ; Training [welfare work] ; Quality ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Fifteen years after the Registered Homes Act 1984 and the Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA) code of practice, "Home life", the institutions and practices which they established require serious revision. There is expectation that the White Paper "Modernising social services" (Cm 4169) and the Royal Commission on Long-term Care's "With respect to old age" (Cm 4192) will have some impact on the reformulation of long-term care regulation. This study begins from the premise that the greatest net gains to be achieved in the quality of long-term care will be through improving the effectiveness and skill of staff. The authors look in detail at the range of tasks performed by managers of long-term care homes, the effects of policy change and the changing role of managers, and the skills they should possess to do their work. Recommendations are made which focus on future training and the quality assurance framework needed in a new regulatory system, as well as on cost implications. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991018207 B |
| Classmark | QM: P: I: L: 4Q: QA: QW: 59: 3F |
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