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The health and social care divide: bridging the gap

14 February 1996

Nursing Standard

Clinical

The Caring for People White Paper (DoH 1989) suggested that community care means: 'Providing the right level of intervention and support to enable people to achieve...

The importance of specialist advocacy services for parents with learning disabilities

10 February 2010

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

Parents who have learning disabilities often require additional support to be able to look after their children and keep them from being taken into care. Sue English...

Origins, purpose and future of Sure Start children’s centres

07 February 2012

Nursing Children and Young People

General

Sure Start began in England under the UK’s former Labour government as an intervention for families with young children, particularly targeting the most deprived in...

Multi-disciplinary person-centred care: has government policy helped or hindered?

01 October 2004

Nursing Older People

Gerontological care and practice

The National Service Framework for Older People (NSF) (DoH 2001) defines person-centred care as an approach that treats older people as individuals and enables them...

Specialist support teams: influencing the nursing care of older people

01 March 2004

Nursing Older People

General

Advancing practice in the care home (nursing) sector has ensured that older people receive higher standards of care through inter-professional collaboration and a...

Assessing the impact of delayed discharge on acute care

07 February 1996

Nursing Standard

Management

Acute hospital beds are an expensive and scarce resource for which there is a high demand. It is, therefore, important that such resources are used effectively and...

The Integrated Children’s System: challenges of information sharing

01 December 2005

Paediatric Nursing

General

Information has to be shared within and between agencies if Every Child Matters (DH 2003a) is to bring real benefits to children in need and their families. The...

Complex palliative care and transition: a case review

01 November 2007

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

This case study assesses the effect that health and social care had on the chronic life-limiting condition of a young man going through transition from children’s to...

Brighter prospects

25 January 2011

Nursing Standard

Feature

One London hospital provides a nursing service dedicated to people who are homeless.

Innocence lost

23 April 2008

Nursing Standard

Feature

An RCN congress resolution is calling for an end to the scandal of the estimated one million child carers in England and Wales.