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Szczepura, Ala, Roberts, Jean, Biggerstaff, Deborah, Fagan, Rose and Clay, Diane (2005) Optimising the use of ICTs by health & social care professionals in the community. Coventry ; London: University of Warwick ; Department of Health.
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This research was commissioned as part of the Department of Health's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Research Initiative, to identify ways in which ICTs might provide benefits to health and social care professionals working across boundaries and to the clients/ patients that they serve. The project aimed to examine the use of existing ICTs in supporting isolated users in the community (principally professionals but also lay users), and to consider ways in which use of such ICTs might be improved, focusing initially on non-person identifiable information. A single patient group was selected as the main focus of the study - older people (and their carers). This group was chosen because the needs of older people and their carers reflect those of the wider isolated populations served by health and social welfare professionals in terms of their clinical, psychological and social care needs. Other isolated groups might include the physically disabled, the mentally ill, or those socially and potentially service isolated through geography, lifestyles or other factors. Older people would be represented in all these categories. Therefore, a study focusing on the information needs of professionals who support older patients or clients should provide findings that are generalisable to other groups, such as those mentioned above. Furthermore, it was evident that this is an important group on which to focus in terms of inter-agency working because of the various policy initiatives that aim to enhance working between professionals across the health and social care interface in relation to older people.
Item Type: | Report | ||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Caregivers -- Interviews -- Warwickshire (England), Caregivers -- Interviews -- Leicester (England), Health services administration -- Warwickshire (England), Health services administration -- Leicester (England), Information technology -- Warwickshire (England), Information technology -- Leicester (England), Older people -- Warwickshire (England), Older people -- Leicester (England) | ||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick ; Department of Health | ||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry ; London | ||||
Official Date: | January 2005 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 149 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 November 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 November 2016 | ||||
Funder: | Great Britain. Department of Health (DoH) |
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