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Can networks of research active care homes for older people be created and sustained?
(2013-06-26)
Background: In the UK care homes are one of the main providers of long term care for older people with dementia. Despite the recent increase in care home research, residents with dementia are often excluded (Gordon et al, ...
Integrated working between residential care homes and primary care : a survey of care homes in England
(2012-11-14)
Older people living in care homes in England have complex health needs due to a range of medical conditions, mental health needs and frailty. Despite an increasing policy expectation that professionals should operate in ...
ENRICH : a new innovation to facilitate dementia research in care homes
(2012)
There are currently almost three times as many care home beds as NHS hospital beds in England, and the number is projected to rise significantly by 2019 (Laing and Buisson, 2009). The majority of care homes have no on-site ...
Nurse-led case management in the National Health Service : bridging clinical and social worlds
(2012)
To understand the effects of Nurse Case Managers (NCMs) working in primary care in the English National Health Service (NHS) from multiple perspectives and how this new role impacts on social workers, this paper reports ...
Nurse case management and general practice : implications for GP consortia
(2011-10)
Reducing hospital admission rates by nurse-led case management (community matrons) is attractive in theory but in practice is challenging for a range of reasons that need to be understood in commissioning similar services ...
A systematic review of integrated working between care homes and health care services
(2011)
In the UK there are almost three times as many beds in care homes as in National Health Service (NHS) hospitals. Care homes rely on primary health care for access to medical care and specialist services. Repeated policy ...
Establishing new nursing roles : A case study of the English community matron initiative
(2011)
Aim and objective : To examine the factors affecting the extent to which English policy on the introduction of community matrons for people with chronic conditions was implemented. Background : Improving health services ...
Good practice outside the care homes
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011)