Daisy Bogg summarises a qualitative study of professional and client experiences of indirect payments under the Mental Capacity Act.
[read the full story...]Indirect Payments: when the MCA interacts with the personalisation agenda
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Direct payments in context: empowerment and quality of relationships
Martin Stevens on a qualitative study of how direct payments affects the relationships between employer and carer.
[read the full story...]Power and powerlessness: Mental health practitioner and service user perspectives on personal budgets
Martin Stevens examines a study on mental health service user and practitioner experiences of personal budgets and finds that power and attitudes remain important factors.
[read the full story...]A Suitable Person: An insider perspective finds conflict between parent-carers and practitioners
Earlier this year, we posted about a study which showed positive outcomes being achieved by suitable persons for individuals lacking capacity to consent to direct payments.
Here Alex Leeder, who blogged about this study, looks at the views of parent-carers who have fulfilled the role of ‘suitable person’ – an ‘insider’ perspective.
[read the full story...]Choice and control for carers: How is personalisation working?
Sarah Carr looks at a literature review assessing how choice is working for family carers in the context of social care personalisation.
[read the full story...]Supporting choice? Older people and personal budgets
Martin Stevens examines research into how councils are implementing personal budgets for older people and has important questions about supporting choice.
[read the full story...]Personal budgets in mental health: power to the people?
Professor Liz Hughes appraises and summarises a systematic review, which investigates the effectiveness of personal budgets for people with mental health problems.
[read the full story...]E-markets and micros: evidence for the future of social care?
Sarah Carr takes an unusual step of appraising a ‘think tank’ research report on e-marketplaces for social care and discusses the work in relation to the broader context of evidence-based policy.
[read the full story...]Direct Payments: Are they working well for people with learning disabilities or dementia who lack mental capacity to consent?
Alex Leeder looks at the experiences of using ‘indirect’ payments in a qualitative study of the experiences of practitioners and ‘suitable’ people.
[read the full story...]Policy impacts on home care services for older people
Mike Clark provides a timely commentary on research into the impact of personalisation on home care services for older people and finds inherent tensions between choice, competition and the desire for improving the relational aspects of direct care.
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