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Person centred plan planning in Hampshire:

01 February 2007

Learning Disability Practice

Practice & research

In this article, the fifth in a series by the Hampshire person-centred planning team, Gwen Moulster and colleagues explore how person-centred planning with people...

Innovation and teamwork: introducing multidisciplinary team ward rounds

01 April 2006

Nursing Management

Leadership

IT HAS long been recognised that teamwork and effective communication are essential to success in most businesses and organisations. Health care requires that a...

Clinical effectiveness and clinical teams: effective practice with older people

01 July 2001

Nursing Older People

General

Gerontological practice is widely recognised as a team effort (RCP 2000). Many of the issues that challenge the practice of gerontology stem from the historical...

Developing a community stroke rehabilitation service

01 June 2001

Nursing Older People

General

Stroke is a potentially devastating condition. Kaufman (1988) writes: ‘Though a stroke is a specific physiological event, the resulting impairment may be diverse and...

Introducing an integrated nursing research programme

24 January 1996

Nursing Standard

Research

There has been much debate about research in the NHS since the establishment of the Central Research and Development Committee (CRDC) and the announcement of a...

Supplementary nurse prescribing

23 June 2004

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Aim To explore the attitudes of multidisciplinary team members to nurse prescribing and to establish its perceived advantages and disadvantages. Method Five focus...

Applying collaborative practice to health promotion

31 January 2001

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Background Since the publication of the Health of the Nation document in 1992, collaborative practice has been at the forefront of health service reform. While other...

Developing multidisciplinary profiles in a day hospital

31 January 2001

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The Ferguson Day Hospital provides a patient-centred, multidisciplinary service for patient assessment and rehabilitation. The authors describe the development of a...

Food challenges: A review and audit

01 November 2002

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

The prevalence of food allergy in the paediatric population varies between 4 and 8 per cent (Hide and Guyer 1983) with an apparent increase in the number of cases in...

Developing a multi-agency core training programme for staff working in learning disability services

01 February 2004

Learning Disability Practice

Practice & research

It has long been recognised that good quality services for people with a learning disability offer a mixture of professional staff who provide primary care and...