Understanding health and social care by Jon Glasby

Understanding health and social care by Jon Glasby

As public spending cuts bite, joint working between health and social care is more important than ever before - but even harder to achieve. Following a series of high profile reforms and policy announcements, this substantially updated second edition highlights key developments under both the UK New Labour (1997-2010) and the Coalition governments (2010-), focusing on the key policy and practice dilemmas facing community health and social services. With partnership working now part of core business rather than an optional extra, this book is essential reading for anyone studying or working in health and social care. It provides practical material to populate the theoretical and conceptual knowledge of social policy students, and conceptual material to help make sense of the practical experience of professional students on training courses. It also appeals to both a social care and a health care audience - and particularly to those who seek to work such boundaries.

"This is an extremely well-thought-out book on the interrelated subjects of care in the community and interprofessional working... the title is worthy of inclusion on the reading lists of professional qualifying courses for nurses and social workers." Health and Social Care in the Community, on the first edition

Jon Glasby is Professor of Health and Social Care and Director of the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham, UK. A qualified social worker by background, he is engaged in regular research and policy advice around the future of health and social care.

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ISBN 13	9781847426239
ISBN 10	1847426239
Title	Understanding health and social care
Author	Jon Glasby
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Policy Press
Year published	2012-02-29
Number of pages	224
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