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Good Care Month - January 2021

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With an increased aging population and individuals of all ages with more complex needs that require additional social care support, there is an increasing requirement to recruit and retain staff in the adult social care sector.

The Good Care Campaign is about celebrating the great work that social care staff do each and every day and sharing it via the campaign.

For more information surrounding social care and the Good Care Month campaign please visit the following websites:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/

https://www.hcpa.info/good-care-campaign/

 

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who work within a social care setting and those who require social care, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer a range of resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS:

  • Personalisation; a rough guide / Sarah Carr, and Social Care Institute for Excellence (Great Britain), 2010, Revised Edition [London: Social Care Institute for Excellence]

JOURNALS:

  • Social Care and Neurodisability / Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2010 – 2014]
  • Learning in Health and Social Care / Oxford : Wiley - Blackwell Publishing. [Available in print 2002 - 2009, and as a Keele ejournal 2003 – 2009].
  • Health and Social Care in the Community / Oxford, England : Blackwell Science. [Available in print 1993 – 2011 vol. 19(1); as a Keele ejournal 1998 onwards, and NHS ejournal 2001 – onwards with 1 year embargo].
  • Nursing & residential care / London : Mark Allen Publishing. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2005 onwards].
  • Palliative Care and Social Practice / SAGE Publications. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2019 onwards, and NHS ejournal 2008 – onwards].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

  • Karen Harrison Dening, Caroline Scates, George McGill and Kay De-Vries, “A training needs analysis of admiral nurses to facilitate advance care planning in dementia”, Palliative Care, 2019, Vol. 12 pp 1–10, doi:10.1177/1178224219850183. [Open access article online]
  • M. Leverton, A. Burton and J. Rees et al., “A systematic review of observational studies of adult home care”, Health & social care in the community, 2019 Nov; Vol. 27 (6), pp. 1388-1400. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Juliana Thompson and Zoe Brown et al., “Development of the 'Museum Health and Social Care Service' to promote the use of arts and cultural activities by health and social care professionals caring for older people”, Educational gerontology, 2020, Vol.46 (8), p.452-460. [Available via Keele ejournals]
  • Veronica O'Carroll, Linda McSwiggan and Martin Campbell, “Health and social care professionals' attitudes to interprofessional working and interprofessional education: A literature review”, Journal of interprofessional care, 2016, Vol.30 (1), p.42-49. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Ceri Bowen, Anna MacLehose, “Multiple sclerosis: long-term social care and the 'family care pathway', Social Care and Neurodisability, 2010 Vol. 1 (1) pp 31-38. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Wendy Lawrence, Christina Black, “Making every contact count’: Evaluation of the impact of an intervention to train health and social care practitioners in skills to support health behaviour change”, Journal of health psychology, 2016 Vol.21 (2), p.138-151. [Available via Keele ejournals]
  • G. Spiers, F.E. Matthews, S. Moffatt et al., “Does older adults' use of social care influence their healthcare utilisation? A systematic review of international evidence.” Health and Social Care in the Community, 2019, September, Vol. 27 (5) pp.e651-e662. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12798. Epub 2019 Jul 17. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]

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