Melanie Henwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie Henwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Henwood |
| SIGNATURE | HENWOOD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oldham Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Supporting carers
Self-funders
Personalisation is, above all, ‘about giving people choice and control over their lives’, and ensuring that care and support responds to people’s needs and wishes and enables them to ‘lead active, independent and connected lives’ (HM Government, 2012). A key element in enabling people to exercise choice and control is the personal budget, particularly when taken in the form of a direct payment. It might be assumed that having purchasing power aut…
Older Carers and Carers of People with Dementia
The policy drive to support carers is a longstanding national and international priority. Research about the design and delivery of support for carers is critical to the underpinning evidence base. Through a timely exploration of a third sector perspective, the UK-based study discussed in this article provides insights into approaches to, and the commissioning of, support for older carers and carers of people with dementia. The study highlights t…
Self-funders
The Care Act 2014 gave local authorities in England broad duties around wellbeing, and responsibility to ensure the availability of good quality, personalised social care and support services for people who need them. These responsibilities are for all people needing support, whether that is publicly or privately funded. In exercising their duties, councils have a responsibility for ‘market-shaping’: that is, understanding the supply and demand f…
Carer‐related research and knowledge
The review discussed in this paper provides a unique synthesis of evidence and knowledge about carers. The authors adopted a scoping review methodology drawing on a wide range of material from many different sources published between 2000 and 2016. It offers key insights into what we know and how we know it; reinforces and expands evidence about carers' profile; shows knowledge is uneven, e.g. much is known about working carers, young carers and …
Austerity and the lives of people with learning disabilities. A thematic synthesis of current literature
The Financial Crisis of 2008 resulted in many western economies implementing cuts in health and social care. This systematic review provides a holistic picture of the impact of austerity policy on the lives of people with learning disabilities (LD) and the collateral effects on the people who support them. Our review suggests that in the current climate of economic austerity, available funding to support people with LD is no longer aligned to the…
Self-funders
Self-funders
Personalisation is, above all, ‘about giving people choice and control over their lives’, and ensuring that care and support responds to people’s needs and wishes and enables them to ‘lead active, independent and connected lives’ (HM Government, 2012). A key element in enabling people to exercise choice and control is the personal budget, particularly when taken in the form of a direct payment. It might be assumed that having purchasing power aut…
Debates in personalisation
Part 1: Introduction and Overview Introduction ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Taking Stock of Personalisation ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Making it Real: from Putting People First to Think Local, Act Personal ~ Sarah Carr Part 2: The Challenges of Personalisation Resource Allocation Systems: complex and counterproductive? ~ Lucy Series Safeguarding, risk and personalisation ~ Jill Manthorpe Can personalisation work for older people? ~ …
Effective partnership working
The process of discharging patients from hospital provides a critical indicator of the state of partnership working between health and social care agencies. In many ways, hospital discharge can be seen to epitomise the challenges which beset partnership working. For patients who have care needs which continue following their discharge from hospital, how well health and social care partners are able to coordinate their policies and practice is cri…
The NHS and social care
English The boundary between health and social care in England has been problematic throughout the postwar period. The 1997 Labour government put a specific emphasis on partnership working across these two policy areas and developed a coherent strategy for promoting the collaboration agenda. However, it has almost simultaneously turned against partnership working and in favour of restructuring as a way of securing integrated care. This has caused…
Understanding Old Age
Politics, Power and Old Age (Rethinking Ageing Series)
In Pursuit of Inter-Agency Collaboration In The Public Sector
Although long seen as desirable, inter-agency collaboration has remained conceptually elusive and difficult to achieve. Whilst recognising that there are other positions, this article takes the normative position that collaboration is generally a ‘good thing’. It brings together strands of theoretical, conceptual and empirical literature from diverse disciplines in ‘order to better understand inter-agency collaboration as a concept and as a proce…
Halfway There? Policy, Politics and Outcomes in Community Care
The community care reforms which followed the 1989 White Paper “Caring for People”were apparently focused on addressing the needs of people requiring long‐term care, and on achieving improved outcomes and better quality of life. The agenda set out by the White Paper was for community care in the next decade and beyond. Half way through this decade, we question the extent to which the objectives of promoting choice and independence for users and c…
Family Policy
No sense of urgency
(1991). No sense of urgency: Age discrimination in health care. Critical Public Health: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 4-14
Joint Approaches to Social Policy
This book is in essence concerned with the quest for rationality in decision-making, and is founded on the premise that improvements in the machinery of decision-making can actually lead to better decisions. The numerous initiatives of the 1960s and 1970s established specifically to foster greater policy coordination (notably the Central Policy Review Staff or 'Think Tank') had, by the beginning of the 1980s, fallen foul of an altogether changed …
The NHS and social care
English The boundary between health and social care in England has been problematic throughout the postwar period. The 1997 Labour government put a specific emphasis on partnership working across these two policy areas and developed a coherent strategy for promoting the collaboration agenda. However, it has almost simultaneously turned against partnership working and in favour of restructuring as a way of securing integrated care. This has caused…
Debates in personalisation
Part 1: Introduction and Overview Introduction ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Taking Stock of Personalisation ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Making it Real: from Putting People First to Think Local, Act Personal ~ Sarah Carr Part 2: The Challenges of Personalisation Resource Allocation Systems: complex and counterproductive? ~ Lucy Series Safeguarding, risk and personalisation ~ Jill Manthorpe Can personalisation work for older people? ~ …
Austerity and the lives of people with learning disabilities. A thematic synthesis of current literature
The Financial Crisis of 2008 resulted in many western economies implementing cuts in health and social care. This systematic review provides a holistic picture of the impact of austerity policy on the lives of people with learning disabilities (LD) and the collateral effects on the people who support them. Our review suggests that in the current climate of economic austerity, available funding to support people with LD is no longer aligned to the…
Self-funders
The Care Act 2014 gave local authorities in England broad duties around wellbeing, and responsibility to ensure the availability of good quality, personalised social care and support services for people who need them. These responsibilities are for all people needing support, whether that is publicly or privately funded. In exercising their duties, councils have a responsibility for ‘market-shaping’: that is, understanding the supply and demand f…
Effective partnership working
The process of discharging patients from hospital provides a critical indicator of the state of partnership working between health and social care agencies. In many ways, hospital discharge can be seen to epitomise the challenges which beset partnership working. For patients who have care needs which continue following their discharge from hospital, how well health and social care partners are able to coordinate their policies and practice is cri…
Politics, Power and Old Age (Rethinking Ageing Series)
Halfway There? Policy, Politics and Outcomes in Community Care
The community care reforms which followed the 1989 White Paper “Caring for People”were apparently focused on addressing the needs of people requiring long‐term care, and on achieving improved outcomes and better quality of life. The agenda set out by the White Paper was for community care in the next decade and beyond. Half way through this decade, we question the extent to which the objectives of promoting choice and independence for users and c…
Joint Approaches to Social Policy
This book is in essence concerned with the quest for rationality in decision-making, and is founded on the premise that improvements in the machinery of decision-making can actually lead to better decisions. The numerous initiatives of the 1960s and 1970s established specifically to foster greater policy coordination (notably the Central Policy Review Staff or 'Think Tank') had, by the beginning of the 1980s, fallen foul of an altogether changed …
No sense of urgency
(1991). No sense of urgency: Age discrimination in health care. Critical Public Health: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 4-14
Family Policy
Halfway There? Policy, Politics and Outcomes in Community Care
The community care reforms which followed the 1989 White Paper “Caring for People”were apparently focused on addressing the needs of people requiring long‐term care, and on achieving improved outcomes and better quality of life. The agenda set out by the White Paper was for community care in the next decade and beyond. Half way through this decade, we question the extent to which the objectives of promoting choice and independence for users and c…
In Pursuit of Inter-Agency Collaboration In The Public Sector
Although long seen as desirable, inter-agency collaboration has remained conceptually elusive and difficult to achieve. Whilst recognising that there are other positions, this article takes the normative position that collaboration is generally a ‘good thing’. It brings together strands of theoretical, conceptual and empirical literature from diverse disciplines in ‘order to better understand inter-agency collaboration as a concept and as a proce…
Politics, Power and Old Age (Rethinking Ageing Series)
Understanding Old Age
The NHS and social care
English The boundary between health and social care in England has been problematic throughout the postwar period. The 1997 Labour government put a specific emphasis on partnership working across these two policy areas and developed a coherent strategy for promoting the collaboration agenda. However, it has almost simultaneously turned against partnership working and in favour of restructuring as a way of securing integrated care. This has caused…
Effective partnership working
The process of discharging patients from hospital provides a critical indicator of the state of partnership working between health and social care agencies. In many ways, hospital discharge can be seen to epitomise the challenges which beset partnership working. For patients who have care needs which continue following their discharge from hospital, how well health and social care partners are able to coordinate their policies and practice is cri…
Self-funders
Personalisation is, above all, ‘about giving people choice and control over their lives’, and ensuring that care and support responds to people’s needs and wishes and enables them to ‘lead active, independent and connected lives’ (HM Government, 2012). A key element in enabling people to exercise choice and control is the personal budget, particularly when taken in the form of a direct payment. It might be assumed that having purchasing power aut…
Debates in personalisation
Part 1: Introduction and Overview Introduction ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Taking Stock of Personalisation ~ Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby Making it Real: from Putting People First to Think Local, Act Personal ~ Sarah Carr Part 2: The Challenges of Personalisation Resource Allocation Systems: complex and counterproductive? ~ Lucy Series Safeguarding, risk and personalisation ~ Jill Manthorpe Can personalisation work for older people? ~ …
Self-funders
Austerity and the lives of people with learning disabilities. A thematic synthesis of current literature
The Financial Crisis of 2008 resulted in many western economies implementing cuts in health and social care. This systematic review provides a holistic picture of the impact of austerity policy on the lives of people with learning disabilities (LD) and the collateral effects on the people who support them. Our review suggests that in the current climate of economic austerity, available funding to support people with LD is no longer aligned to the…
Carer‐related research and knowledge
The review discussed in this paper provides a unique synthesis of evidence and knowledge about carers. The authors adopted a scoping review methodology drawing on a wide range of material from many different sources published between 2000 and 2016. It offers key insights into what we know and how we know it; reinforces and expands evidence about carers' profile; shows knowledge is uneven, e.g. much is known about working carers, young carers and …
Older Carers and Carers of People with Dementia
The policy drive to support carers is a longstanding national and international priority. Research about the design and delivery of support for carers is critical to the underpinning evidence base. Through a timely exploration of a third sector perspective, the UK-based study discussed in this article provides insights into approaches to, and the commissioning of, support for older carers and carers of people with dementia. The study highlights t…
Self-funders
The Care Act 2014 gave local authorities in England broad duties around wellbeing, and responsibility to ensure the availability of good quality, personalised social care and support services for people who need them. These responsibilities are for all people needing support, whether that is publicly or privately funded. In exercising their duties, councils have a responsibility for ‘market-shaping’: that is, understanding the supply and demand f…
Self-funders
Personalisation is, above all, ‘about giving people choice and control over their lives’, and ensuring that care and support responds to people’s needs and wishes and enables them to ‘lead active, independent and connected lives’ (HM Government, 2012). A key element in enabling people to exercise choice and control is the personal budget, particularly when taken in the form of a direct payment. It might be assumed that having purchasing power aut…
Supporting carers
Political science (13 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (9 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)