System of care values and principles2 have achieved wide acceptance in the children’s mental health arena, but the value of family involvement is not always internalized and operationalized among front line staff or among partner agencies and systems. Respecting families as experts on their children, enlisting them as partners in the care of their children, supporting them in their caregiver ro...

 The need to respond to a series of scandals around care quality, finding new ways in which we can support front-line staff to deliver high quality, person-centred care.  The negative perceptions that this has created in the media, making some patients worried about the care they might receive and some staff ashamed rather than proud of what they do.  Significant financial pressures (which s...

Abstract Stigma by association, also referred to as “courtesy stigma,” involves public disapproval evoked as a consequence of associating with stigmatized persons. While a small number of sociological studies have shown how stigma by association limits the social support and social opportunities available to family members, there is a paucity of research examining this phenomenon among the larg...

Background There is strong evidence supporting that pharmacist involvement strengthens the quality of the medication process. There is also evidence indicating that many emergency admissions among the elderly are medicine related. Based on this existing knowledge, it was decided to investigate whether implementation of clinical pharmacy in the Emergency Department could make a further difference.

The fragility of employers' voluntary, business-case-based improvements to employment standards for front-line hourly paid staff is revealed in two organisational case studies from the art and care sectors. For different reasons, Covid provided a catalyst employers enact passive active exit strategies that made work more precarious.

Despite a great deal of academic debate surrounding the term ‘restorative justice’, it would appear fair to suggest that the majority of the research in this area focuses upon the three main stakeholders involved within the process, namely the victim, the offender and the community, victim-offender mediation, and the benefits of such an approach. Nonetheless, not only can this can be seen to ne...

14 The drylands are on the front line of climate change, and they include the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. We are already seeing in them the harrowing effects of climate change on poverty, survival, health, hunger, human well-being — and on peace itself, because the heavily impacted drylands are among the most unstable parts of the world. The stretch from Senegal through to Afgha...