Professor Karen Jones

Joint Director

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Research Interests

Karen's research interests include costing methodologies, quality and outcomes in health and social care and economic evaluations.

Karen Jones' Publications

Journal Articles

Journal Article

The impact of Individual Budgets on the targeting of support: findings from a national evaluation of pilot projects in England (2012)

Jones K, Netten A, Fernández J-L, Knapp M, Challis D, Glendinning C, Jacobs S, Manthorpe J, Moran N, Stevens M, Wilberforce M

Public Money and Management 32, 6, 417-424

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Implementing consumer choice in long-term care: the impact of individual budgets on social care providers in England (2011)

Wilberforce M, Glendinning C, Challis D, Fernández J-L, Jacobs S, Jones K, Knapp M, Manthorpe J, Netten A, Stevens M

Social Policy and Administration 45, 5, 593-612

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Personalisation and partnership: competing objectives in English adult social care? The Individual Budget Pilot Projects and the NHS (2011)

Glendinning C, Moran N, Challis D, Fernández J-L, Jacobs S, Jones K, Knapp M, Manthorpe J, Netten A, Stevens M, Wilberforce M

Social Policy and Society 10, 2, 151-162

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Joining up government by integrating funding streams? The experiences of the Individual Budget pilot projects for older and disabled people in England (2011)

Moran N, Glendinning C, Stevens M, Manthorpe J, Jacobs S, Wilberforce M, Knapp M, Challis D, Fernández J-L, Jones K, Netten A

International Journal of Public Administration 34, 4, 232-243

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Individual budgets and adult safeguarding: Parallel or converging tracks? Further findings from the evaluation of the Individual Budget pilots (2011)

Manthorpe J, Stevens M, Rapaport J, Challis D, Jacobs S, Netten A, Jones K, Knapp M, Wilberforce M, Glendinning C

Journal of Social Work 11, 4, 422-438

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Assessing the role of increasing choice in English social care services (2011)

Stevens M, Glendinning C, Jacobs S, Moran N, Challis D, Manthorpe J, Fernández J-L, Jones K, Knapp M, Netten A, Wilberforce M

Journal of Social Policy 40, 2, 257-274

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The costs of change: a case study of the process of implementing individual budgets in 13 pilot local authorities in England (2010)

Jones K, Netten A

Health and Social Care in the Community 18, 1, 51-58

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Journal Article

Individual budget projects come under the microscope (2009)

Manthorpe J, Stevens M, Challis D, Netten A, Glendinning C, Knapp M, Wilberforce M, Jacobs S, Jones K, Moran C, Fernández J-L

Mental Health Today 8, 10, 22-26

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Journal Article

Evaluating the individual budget pilot projects (2007)

Glendinning C, Challis D, Fernández J-L, Jones K, Knapp M, Manthorpe J, Netten A, Stevens M, Wilberforce M

Journal of Care Services Management 1, 2, 123-128

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Journal Article

Provider and care workforce influences on quality of home care services in England (2007)

Netten A, Jones K, Sandhu S

Journal of Aging and Social Policy 19, 3, 81-97

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Journal Article

Using older home care user experiences in performance monitoring (2007)

Jones K, Netten A, Francis J, Bebbington A

Health and Social Care in the Community 15, 4, 322-332

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Edited Books

Edited Book

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care (2021)

Jones K, Burns A

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Book Sections

Book Section

Personal health budgets: implementation and outcomes (2016)

Jones K, Forder J, Caiels J, Welch E, Windle K

Policy Press

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Book Section

Evaluation of the personal health budget pilot programme (2014)

Forder J, Jones K

Policy Press

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Book Section

Costs and uses of Individual Budgets (2008)

Jones K

Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent

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Book Section

The cost of providing home care (2005)

Jones K

Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent

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Reports

Report

Personal health budgets: Targeting of support and the service provider landscape (2018)

Jones K, Welch E, Fox D, Caiels J, Forder J

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Report

Personal Health Budgets: Implementation following the national pilot programme; overall project summary (2018)

Jones K, Welch E, Fox D, Caiels J, Forder J

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Report

Identifying options for funding the NHS and social care in the UK: international evidence (2018)

Cylus J, Roland, D, Nolte E, Corbett J, Jones K, Forder J, Sussex J

Health Foundation

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Report

A system-level evaluation of the Better Care Fund: Final Report (2018)

Forder J, Caiels J, Harlock J, Wistow G, Malisauskaite G, Peters M, Marczak J, D'Amico F, Fernández J-L, Fitzpatrick R, Jones K

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