Unequal Partners: User Groups and Community Care

by Stephen Harrison, Marian Barnes, Maggie Mort, et al.

Self-organised user groups of social and health care services are playing an increasingly significant part within systems of local governance.Based on detailed empirical work looking at the user and 'official' perspective, this report includes studies of user groups and officials in two policy areas - mental health and disability. The authors examine both the strategies user groups adopt to seek their objectives, and explore conceptual issues relating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861340567
• ISBN13: 9781861340566
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"