Guidance for commissioners of mental health services for people with learning...
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Professor Jill Manthorpe begins 2015 with a blog considering a systematic review on interventions to prevent and respond to violence against disabled people. She reflects on how social workers use...
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Can you imagine how frustrating for patients it must be to wait for a surgical consultation only to be told you don’t need surgery and then be sent away. Then enter the Advanced Physiotherapy...
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In her debut blog, Jacquelyn Ryan asks if Pilates exercise programmes help chronic low back pain. Jacquelyn considers a new systematic review, which examined the literature to determine the...
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The Whole System Demonstrator programme is the largest randomised control trial of telehealth and telecare in the world. One of the most complex trials ever undertaken by the Department of Health, it...
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Caroline Struthers looks at a study on the effectiveness of a NZ dementia day programme but wonders about the use of outcomes measures in the research. The post Dementia day programmes: how can we tell...
View ArticleChallenges for evaluating effectiveness in social work
Mike Clark on a scoping review of effectiveness research, methods, outcomes and reporting in social work across a broad spectrum of adult social care contexts. The post Challenges for evaluating...
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