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Author Evers, Adalbert

Title Developing Quality in Personal Social Services : Concepts, Cases and Comments
Published Milton : Routledge, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (319 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals Ser
Routledge Revivals Ser
Contents <P><STRONG>Part 1. Concepts.</STRONG> 1. Quality Development -- Part of a Changing Culture of Care in Personal Social Services. <I>Adalbert Evers.</I> 2. Business and Professional Approaches to Quality Improvement: A Comparison of their Suitability for the Personal Social Services. <I>Christopher Pollitt.</I> 3. Quality Management in Finland -- Problems and Possibilities. <I>Mikko Mäntysaari.</I> 4. Quality in Personal Social Services: The Developing Role of User Involvement in the UK. <I>Peter Beresford, Suzy Croft, Clare Evans, Tessa Harding.</I> <B>Part 2. Methods.</B> 5. Professionals and Quality Initiatives in Health and Social Services. <I>Marketta Rajavaara.</I> 6. Measuring Quality in Personal Social Services? <I>Monica Dowling.</I> 7. Towards a New Client Orientation through Continuous Improvement. <I>Maria Oppen.</I> 8. Combining Client Interests with Professionalism in the Organization. <I>Gabriëlle Verbeek.</I> 9. Quality Management and Quality Assurance in Residential and Nursing Home Care in Britain and Germany. <I>Barbara Klein.</I> 10. User-Centred Performance Indicators for Inspection of Community Care in Scotland: Developing a Framework. <I>Rosemary Bland.</I> <B>Part 3. Cases and Comments.<I> </B></I>11. Quality Assured or Quality Compromised?<B> </B>Developing Domiciliary Care Markets in Britain. <I>Brian Hardy / Gerald Wistow.</I> 12. Rationality and Management in Public Care Services. <I>Sturle Næss / Kari Wærness.</I> 13. Quality by Users' Influence and Involvement in Denmark -- The Logical Development of Social Services. <I>Steen Bengtsson.</I> 14. The City of Stockholm's Awards for Good Quality. <I>Jonas Bjelfvenstam.</I> 15. Quality in Home Care and Nursing? <I>Karen Christensen.</I> 16. Promoting Quality of Life for Oldern People in Institutions. <I>Carla Costanzi.</I> 17. Some National and Local Quality Strategies in Finland. <I>Riitta Haverinen.</I> 18. Quality of Care on Whose Terms? <I>Marja A. Pijl.</I> 19. Quality Measurements and Some Unintended Consequences: Can Quasi-Quality Be a Consequence of Quality Standards? <I>Britt Slagsvold.</P></I>
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Social work administration -- Standards
Quality assurance.
Quality control.
quality control.
Quality assurance
Quality control
Form Electronic book
Author Haverinen, Riitta
Leichsenring, Kai
Wistow, Gerald
ISBN 9780429787416
0429787413
9780429787409
0429787405
9780429787393
0429787391
9780429435249
042943524X