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Mental health social work in multidisciplinary community teams: An analysis of a national service user survey (2019)
Journal Article
Boland, J., Abendstern, M., Wilberforce, M., Pitts, R., Hughes, J., & Challis, D. (2021). Mental health social work in multidisciplinary community teams: An analysis of a national service user survey. Journal of Social Work, 21(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017319860663

© The Author(s) 2019. Summary: The article addresses the continued lack of clarity about the role of the mental health social worker within community mental health teams for working age adults and particularly the limited evidence regarding this from... Read More about Mental health social work in multidisciplinary community teams: An analysis of a national service user survey.

Reflecting on the research encounter for people in the early stages of dementia: Lessons from an embedded qualitative study (2019)
Journal Article
Abendstern, M., Davies, K., Poland, F., Chester, H., Clarkson, P., Hughes, J., …Challis, D. (2020). Reflecting on the research encounter for people in the early stages of dementia: Lessons from an embedded qualitative study. Dementia, 19(8), 2732-2749 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301219855295

© The Author(s) 2019. Gathering meaningful data from people with dementia presents challenges to researchers involved in both qualitative and quantitative studies. Careful planning and implementation are required, including skilful and sympathetic ma... Read More about Reflecting on the research encounter for people in the early stages of dementia: Lessons from an embedded qualitative study.

Protocol for the development of an evidence-based ‘Best Practice Model’ for Teams Managing Crisis in Dementia (2019)
Working Paper
Stanyon, M., Streater, A., Coleston-Shields, D., Yates, J., Challis, D., Dening, T., …Orrell, M. Protocol for the development of an evidence-based ‘Best Practice Model’ for Teams Managing Crisis in Dementia

Background: Teams working in the community to manage crisis in dementia are available, but with widely varying models of practice it is difficult to determine the effectiveness of such teams. The aim of this study is to develop a model of best pra... Read More about Protocol for the development of an evidence-based ‘Best Practice Model’ for Teams Managing Crisis in Dementia.

What is important to people living with dementia?: The 'long-list' of outcome items in the development of a core outcome set for use in the evaluation of non-pharmacological community-based health and social care interventions (2019)
Journal Article
Harding, A. J., Morbey, H., Ahmed, F., Opdebeeck, C., Lasrado, R., Williamson, P. R., …Reilly, S. T. (2019). What is important to people living with dementia?: The 'long-list' of outcome items in the development of a core outcome set for use in the evaluation of non-pharmacological community-based health and social care interventions. BMC Geriatrics, 19(1), Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1103-5

© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Core outcome sets (COS) prioritise outcomes based on their importance to key stakeholders, reduce reporting bias and increase comparability across studies. The first phase of a COS study is to form a 'long-list' of o... Read More about What is important to people living with dementia?: The 'long-list' of outcome items in the development of a core outcome set for use in the evaluation of non-pharmacological community-based health and social care interventions.

Case Management: Costing the Experiments (2018)
Book Chapter
Challis, D., Chesterman, J., & Traske, K. (2018). Case Management: Costing the Experiments. In A. Netten, & J. Beecham (Eds.), Costing Community Care: Theory and Practice (143-161). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429463532-10

This chapter outlines the implications of cost benefit principles for the conceptualisation of costs. It utilises these principles to discuss criteria by which cost should be measured. The chapter aims to compare the costs of community care and stand... Read More about Case Management: Costing the Experiments.

Hospital admissions and place of death of residents of care homes receiving specialist healthcare services: Protocol for a systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Tucker, S., Buck, D., Roe, B., Hughes, J., & Challis, D. (2019). Hospital admissions and place of death of residents of care homes receiving specialist healthcare services: Protocol for a systematic review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(2), 443-451. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13866

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: To synthesize the evidence relating to the ability of specialist care home support services to prevent the hospital admission of older care home residents, including hospital admission at the end-of-life. Design: S... Read More about Hospital admissions and place of death of residents of care homes receiving specialist healthcare services: Protocol for a systematic review.

Care management in social and primary health care: The gateshead community care scheme (2018)
Book
Challis, D., Chesterman, J., Luckett, R., Stewart, K., & Chessum, R. (2018). Care management in social and primary health care: The gateshead community care scheme. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185217

This book provides an evaluation of the Gateshead Community Care Scheme which was devised as an alternative to residential and hospital care for frail elderly people. An important feature of the scheme was the decentralization of control of resources... Read More about Care management in social and primary health care: The gateshead community care scheme.

Reconfiguring in-patient services for adults with mental health problems: Changing the balance of care (2018)
Journal Article
Tucker, S., Hughes, J., Jolley, D., Buck, D., Hargreaves, C., & Challis, D. (2018). Reconfiguring in-patient services for adults with mental health problems: Changing the balance of care. BJPsych Open, 4(6), 420-426. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2018.60

© The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2018. Background Research suggests that a significant minority of hospital in-patients could be more appropriately supported in the community if enhanced services were available. However, little is known about the... Read More about Reconfiguring in-patient services for adults with mental health problems: Changing the balance of care.

Cognitive aids for people with early stage dementia versus treatment as usual (Dementia Early Stage Cognitive Aids New Trial (DESCANT)): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2018)
Journal Article
Chester, H., Clarkson, P., Davies, L., Hughes, J., Islam, M. S., Kapur, N., …Challis, D. (2018). Cognitive aids for people with early stage dementia versus treatment as usual (Dementia Early Stage Cognitive Aids New Trial (DESCANT)): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 19(1), Article 546. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2933-8

Background: There is a growing need for an evidence-based approach to home support for people with dementia and their carers following diagnosis but research on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different approaches is sparse. The Dementia... Read More about Cognitive aids for people with early stage dementia versus treatment as usual (Dementia Early Stage Cognitive Aids New Trial (DESCANT)): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Measuring the patient experience in community mental health services for older people: A study of the Net Promoter Score using the Friends and Family Test in England (2018)
Journal Article
Wilberforce, M., Poll, S., Langham, H., Worden, A., & Challis, D. (2019). Measuring the patient experience in community mental health services for older people: A study of the Net Promoter Score using the Friends and Family Test in England. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 34(1), 31-37. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4978

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Objectives: The research aimed to explore the value of the Net Promoter Score as a service improvement tool and an outcome measure. The study objectives were to (1) explore associations between the Net Promoter Score... Read More about Measuring the patient experience in community mental health services for older people: A study of the Net Promoter Score using the Friends and Family Test in England.

Care management in long-term care of older people (2018)
Book Chapter
Challis, D. (2018). Care management in long-term care of older people. . Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351153560-17

This chapter examines the evolution of care management in services for older people as one of the fundamental components of community care reform in the United Kingdom (UK). Hospital discharge requires a different from of coordinated response to long... Read More about Care management in long-term care of older people.

Linking Community Care and Health Care: A New Role for Secondary Health Care Services (2018)
Book Chapter
Challis, D., Darton, R., & Stewart, K. (2018). Linking Community Care and Health Care: A New Role for Secondary Health Care Services. In D. Challis, R. Darton, & K. Stewart (Eds.), Community Care, Secondary Health Care and Care Management (149-170). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429452536-10

© 1988 Crown Copyright and Bob Welch and Jackie Morris and Peter Carr and Sally Ann Kelly and Iain Carpenter and Peter Huxley and Ken Wright. All rights reserved. The provision of effective long-term care at home for frail older people requires plann... Read More about Linking Community Care and Health Care: A New Role for Secondary Health Care Services.

The Darlington Study: Findings and Lessons for Care Management, Health Care and Community Care (2018)
Book Chapter
Challis, D., Darton, R., & Stewart, K. (2018). The Darlington Study: Findings and Lessons for Care Management, Health Care and Community Care. In D. Challis, R. Darton, & K. Stewart (Eds.), Community Care, Secondary Health Care and Care Management (37-56). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429452536-4

This chapter has two aims. First, to summarise some of the key findings from the Darlington study in order to set the context for the rest of this book. Second, to identify some of the potential areas of development for the future of community care t... Read More about The Darlington Study: Findings and Lessons for Care Management, Health Care and Community Care.

Matching Resources to Needs in Community Care: An evaluated demonstration of a long-term care model (2018)
Book
Davies, B., & Challis, D. (2018). Matching Resources to Needs in Community Care: An evaluated demonstration of a long-term care model. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429448133

© Crown 1986. All rights reserved. First published in 1986, Matching Resources to Needs describes the PSSRU’s community care approach and analyses the first of the community care projects, a seminal set of experiments in the care of the elderly at hi... Read More about Matching Resources to Needs in Community Care: An evaluated demonstration of a long-term care model.

Learning disability services: user views on transition planning (2018)
Journal Article
Hughes, J., Davies, S., Chester, H., Clarkson, P., Stewart, K., & Challis, D. (2018). Learning disability services: user views on transition planning. Tizard Learning Disability Review, 23(3), 150-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/tldr-07-2017-0032

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the views of people with learning disabilities on issues associated with continuity of care in the transition from full-time education to adult care and support. Des... Read More about Learning disability services: user views on transition planning.

Specialist services in early diagnosis and support for older people with dementia in England: Staff roles and service mix (2018)
Journal Article
Ahmed, S., Hughes, J., Davies, S., Stewart, K., Orrell, M., Clarkson, P., …Members of the HoSt-D (Home Support in Dementia) Programme Management Group. (2018). Specialist services in early diagnosis and support for older people with dementia in England: Staff roles and service mix. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33(9), 1280-1285. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4925

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Objectives: This study investigated staff roles and tasks in Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT) and memory clinics, which are provided within a framework determined by local Clinical Commissioning Groups. Methods: A... Read More about Specialist services in early diagnosis and support for older people with dementia in England: Staff roles and service mix.

The preliminary measurement properties of the person-centred community care inventory (PERCCI) (2018)
Journal Article
Wilberforce, M., Challis, D., Davies, L., Kelly, M. P., & Roberts, C. (2018). The preliminary measurement properties of the person-centred community care inventory (PERCCI). Quality of Life Research, 27(10), 2745-2756. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-018-1917-1

© 2018, The Author(s). Purpose: Researchers investigating person-centredness in older people’s long-term community care are hindered by the lack of appropriate measures. Studies have tended to rely on proxy indicators or generic instruments, risking... Read More about The preliminary measurement properties of the person-centred community care inventory (PERCCI).

The patient experience in community mental health services for older people: A concept mapping approach to support the development of a new quality measure (2018)
Journal Article
Wilberforce, M., Batten, E., Challis, D., Davies, L., Kelly, M. P., & Roberts, C. (2018). The patient experience in community mental health services for older people: A concept mapping approach to support the development of a new quality measure. BMC Health Services Research, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3231-6

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: The patient experience is a crucial part of the measurement of service quality. However, instruments to evaluate experiential quality in the community mental health care of older adults are lacking. Before designing... Read More about The patient experience in community mental health services for older people: A concept mapping approach to support the development of a new quality measure.

Developing a core outcome set for people living with dementia at home in their neighbourhoods and communities: study protocol for use in the evaluation of non-pharmacological community-based health and social care interventions (2018)
Journal Article
Harding, A. J., Morbey, H., Ahmed, F., Opdebeeck, C., Wang, Y. Y., Williamson, P., …Reilly, S. (2018). Developing a core outcome set for people living with dementia at home in their neighbourhoods and communities: study protocol for use in the evaluation of non-pharmacological community-based health and social care interventions. Trials, 19(1), Article 247. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2584-9

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: The key aim of the study is to establish an agreed standardised core outcome set (COS) for use when evaluating non-pharmacological health and social care interventions for people living at home with dementia. Methods... Read More about Developing a core outcome set for people living with dementia at home in their neighbourhoods and communities: study protocol for use in the evaluation of non-pharmacological community-based health and social care interventions.