Pat Turton
Biographic Data
| ID | 332467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pat Turton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pat |
| FAMILY NAME | Turton |
| SIGNATURE | TURTON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England Bristol UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Calling executives and clinicians to account’: User involvement in commissioning cancer services
BACKGROUND: English NHS guidance emphasizes the importance of involving users in commissioning cancer services. There has been considerable previous research on involving users in service improvement, but not on involvement in commissioning cancer services. OBJECTIVE: To identify how users were involved as local cancer service commissioning projects sought to implement good practice and what has been learned. DESIGN: Participatory evaluation with…
Divided care and the Third Way: User Involvement in Statutory and Voluntary Sector Cancer Services
In health care, as in much of the public sphere, the voluntary sector is playing an increasingly large role in the funding, provision and delivery of services and nowhere is this more apparent than in cancer care. Simultaneously the growth of privatisation, marketisation and consumerism has engendered a rise in the promotion of 'user involvement' in health care. These changes in the organisation and delivery of health care, in part inspired by th…
Dementia and the Over-75 Check: The role of the primary care nurse
Primary care nurses are very likely to provide a substantial part of the routine care for patients with dementia. In order to examine the knowledge and attitudes of the primary care nurses who undertake the Over-75 Check, towards assessing and managing patients with symptoms of dementia, and to assess their level of support for a clinical practice guideline, a postal questionnaire survey was undertaken of primary care nurses responsible for the O…
Spontaneous resettlement after drought: An Ethiopian example
Based upon two recent periods of fieldwork among a spontaneously resettled population of cattle herders in southwestern Ethiopia, this paper is an attempt to illustrate, by a particular case, the general proposition that external aid, if it is not to be counter-productive, must meet people's needs as they themselves define them.The people in question, the Mursi, have experienced, since 1970, their worst period of drought and hunger in living memo…
Spontaneous resettlement after drought: An Ethiopian example
Based upon two recent periods of fieldwork among a spontaneously resettled population of cattle herders in southwestern Ethiopia, this paper is an attempt to illustrate, by a particular case, the general proposition that external aid, if it is not to be counter-productive, must meet people's needs as they themselves define them.The people in question, the Mursi, have experienced, since 1970, their worst period of drought and hunger in living memo…
Divided care and the Third Way: User Involvement in Statutory and Voluntary Sector Cancer Services
In health care, as in much of the public sphere, the voluntary sector is playing an increasingly large role in the funding, provision and delivery of services and nowhere is this more apparent than in cancer care. Simultaneously the growth of privatisation, marketisation and consumerism has engendered a rise in the promotion of 'user involvement' in health care. These changes in the organisation and delivery of health care, in part inspired by th…
Dementia and the Over-75 Check: The role of the primary care nurse
Primary care nurses are very likely to provide a substantial part of the routine care for patients with dementia. In order to examine the knowledge and attitudes of the primary care nurses who undertake the Over-75 Check, towards assessing and managing patients with symptoms of dementia, and to assess their level of support for a clinical practice guideline, a postal questionnaire survey was undertaken of primary care nurses responsible for the O…
Spontaneous resettlement after drought: An Ethiopian example
Based upon two recent periods of fieldwork among a spontaneously resettled population of cattle herders in southwestern Ethiopia, this paper is an attempt to illustrate, by a particular case, the general proposition that external aid, if it is not to be counter-productive, must meet people's needs as they themselves define them.The people in question, the Mursi, have experienced, since 1970, their worst period of drought and hunger in living memo…
Dementia and the Over-75 Check: The role of the primary care nurse
Primary care nurses are very likely to provide a substantial part of the routine care for patients with dementia. In order to examine the knowledge and attitudes of the primary care nurses who undertake the Over-75 Check, towards assessing and managing patients with symptoms of dementia, and to assess their level of support for a clinical practice guideline, a postal questionnaire survey was undertaken of primary care nurses responsible for the O…
Divided care and the Third Way: User Involvement in Statutory and Voluntary Sector Cancer Services
In health care, as in much of the public sphere, the voluntary sector is playing an increasingly large role in the funding, provision and delivery of services and nowhere is this more apparent than in cancer care. Simultaneously the growth of privatisation, marketisation and consumerism has engendered a rise in the promotion of 'user involvement' in health care. These changes in the organisation and delivery of health care, in part inspired by th…
‘Calling executives and clinicians to account’: User involvement in commissioning cancer services
BACKGROUND: English NHS guidance emphasizes the importance of involving users in commissioning cancer services. There has been considerable previous research on involving users in service improvement, but not on involvement in commissioning cancer services. OBJECTIVE: To identify how users were involved as local cancer service commissioning projects sought to implement good practice and what has been learned. DESIGN: Participatory evaluation with…
Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (2 works) · Marketing (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)