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Description: Following the recently completed SDO-funded project exploring older service user and carers' experiences of transitions in care, a resource pack is now available for others involved in co-research projects to use.
Date:: Wednesday 10th April 2013
Categories:: Research, Social Sciences

Description: A new publication from Cancer Research UK 'Reverse, Pause or Progress' reports the findings of research carried out by HSMC to explore the early impact of the health reforms and NHS efficiency savings programme on cancer services in England
Date:: Tuesday 15th January 2013
Categories:: Research, Social Sciences

Description: In a new study, HSMC academics Robin Miller and Kerry Allen surveyed a sample of Directors of Adult Social Services in nine Local Authorities to identify what they viewed as their top three investments in prevention services for older people.
Date:: Friday 11th January 2013
Categories:: Research, Social Sciences

Description: A new national guide on supporting diverse and inclusive public involvement in research, features a participatory research study carried out by colleagues from across HSMC and IASS as an example of good practice.
Date:: Wednesday 20th June 2012
Categories:: Research, Social Sciences

Description: A survey of social care workers in more than 100 areas of England, Wales and Scotland for the union Unison – conducted by the University of Birmingham's Health Services Management Centre – reveals that 57% have seen day centres close down.
Date:: Monday 18th June 2012
Categories:: Research, Social Sciences

Description: HSMC's Professor Martin Powell leads research to investigate whether job satisfaction and employee attitudes are associated with improved organisational performance in the NHS.
Date:: Friday 11th May 2012
Categories:: Research, Social Sciences

Description: New Health and Wellbeing Boards proposed as a key part of the Coalition's reform package for the NHS must focus on patient outcomes rather than developing unnecessary processes and structures according to a new policy paper from the University of Birmingham's leading health research unit the Health Services Management Centre
Date:: Tuesday 13th March 2012
Categories:: Research, Social Sciences, Teaching

Description: Since the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, health services in the UK have been funded primarily through general taxation and delivered free at the point of access to individuals. However, recent decades have witnessed an expansion in the global market for health services. This has been manifest in various ways, including an unprecedented increase in the volume of patients willing to traverse national borders for the purposes of receiving medical care.
Date:: Monday 13th February 2012
Categories:: Research, Social Sciences

Description: Ward sisters/Charge nurses need to be given a more prominent leadership role in hospitals if standards of acute nursing care are to be improved according to a new Policy Paper from the Health Services Management Centre.
Date:: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Categories:: Research, Social Sciences, Students

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