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Housing and Care for Older People Research NetworkThe next meeting of the Housing and Care for Older People Research Network is taking place on Wednesday 14 April 2010. Sarah Vallelly (Housing 21) and Jill Manthorpe (King’s College London) will be talking about “The Impact of Personalisation on Older People’s Housing”. The venue is the London School of Economics. The meeting will start at 2.00 p.m. and close at 4.00 p.m., with tea and coffee available from 1.30.
Room details and how to get there will be circulated nearer the time, and will also be posted on the website, www.hcoprnet.org.uk.
If you would like to attend, please let Jane Dennett (J.Dennett@kent.ac.uk) know.
[2nd March 2010]
2010 LSE Health and Social Care Annual LectureThe lecture will be given by Sir Christopher Kelly on the challenges facing health and social care post election.
Date: Monday 17th May 2010
Time: 6pm, followed by a reception
Venue: New Theatre
The lecture is open to all and registration is required. Please email pssru@lse.ac.uk to register. Website Link
[25th February 2010]
KT Social Care Project LectureThe lecture will be given by Dr Lavis as part of the KT Social Care Project, which aims to improve links between research bodies, such as PSSRU, and social care organisations, users, practitioners, carers and policy makers.
Date: Monday 12th April 2010
The lecture is open to all and registration is required. Please email pssru@lse.ac.uk to register. Website Link
[25th February 2010]
National evaluation of the Partnerships for Older People Projects pilotsWithin the Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPP) 29 local authorities and their health and voluntary sector partners were funded by the Department of Health between 2006 and 2009. They were to develop services for older people aimed at promoting their health, well-being and independence, and preventing or delaying their need for higher intensity or institutional care.
The PSSRU took the lead in the national evaluation of the pilot projects. The evaluation findings were launched on 16 January by the Secretary of State for Health, Andy Burnham, when Karen Windle from the PSSRU presented key messages from the evidence collected.
The complex and multi-method national evaluation explored the process of implementation as well as the outcomes and found that a wide range of projects resulted in improved quality of life for participants and considerable savings as well as better local relationships.
The following publications from the evaluation are available to download in pdf fomat:
Summary (12 pages, 81KB)
Final report (large file: 302 pages, 6.26MB)
Appendices to final report (246 pages, 2.21MB)
Interim report (October 2008), 10 pages, 131KB)
[18th January 2010]
International Conference on Evidence Based Policy in Long-term Care 8th to 11th September 2010The conference aims to provide a forum for exchanging the latest international evidence on key Long-Term Care policy topics such as how to organise, deliver, fund and regulate services. The emphasis is therefore on evaluative research with clear impact on policy. Also, and although not a formal requirement, contributors are encouraged to highlight the international relevance of the research submitted, either in terms of the evidence used in the analysis and/or of the topics and implications of the work. More information can be found on the conference webpage.
[14th December 2009]
Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further EducationPSSRU at LSE is pleased to announce that LSE Health and Social Care (of which it is a part) has been awarded a prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education 2009. Martin Knapp, director of PSSRU at LSE, was one of the LSE representatives who attended a reception at St James’ Palace on 18 November to hear the announcement. The prize will be awarded at Buckingham Palace in February 2010. The full awards brochure can be viewed here. The full LSE press release is available here.
One of the other groups to be awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2009 is the Health Services and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. PSSRU enjoys many collaborative links with the Institute, and one of the component parts of the award-winning Department is the Centre for the Economics of Mental Health, directed by Martin Knapp. Read the IOP news article here.
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