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Research Interests
James is a Senior Research Fellow at the PSSRU, University of Kent. Since joining in 2007 James has worked on a multitude of research projects, primarily funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research. These have included the evaluation of policy initiatives (e.g. the Better Fund and Personal Health Budgets).
James is currently a co-investigator in the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Quality, Safety and Outcomes Policy Research Unit (QSO). The QSO is a collaboration between the Universities of Kent and Oxford, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Picker Institute and Hull-York Medical School. Its primary purpose is to produce robust, relevant, and usable research aimed at improving the quality and outcomes of the health and social care system. He is also working in the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Adult Social Care (ASCRU) which is led by Dr. José-Luis Fernandez at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC), London School of Economics.
James is a member of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) team (www.pssru.ac.uk/ascot) an outcomes measure used internationally in research and evaluation to inform long-term care policy and practice. He has been involved in the translation and cross validation of ASCOT into German and Japanese, and the development of adapted measures (ASCOT-ER, ASCOT-Proxy and ASCOT-ER (OP)).
James’ main research interests are centred around the integration of health and social care, measuring the impact of social care, and the development of adapted outcome measures for people with cognitive and communication difficulties. Recently he has led work developing evaluation methods and identifying outcomes for strengths-based approaches in social work.
James Caiels' Publications
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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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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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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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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Personal Health Budgets: Process and context following the national pilot programme (2017)
Jones K, Forder J, Welch E, Caiels J, Fox D
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Making the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit Easy Read (2015)
Whelton R, Turnpenny A, Caiels J, Crowther T, Richardson L, Beadle-Brown J, Apps J, Rand S
QORU working paper
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Developing an Easy Read version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) - Appendix (2015)
Turnpenny A, Caiels J, Crowther T, Richardson L, Whelton R, Beadle-Brown J, Apps J, Rand S
QORU working paper
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Developing an Easy Read version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) (2015)
Turnpenny A, Caiels J, Crowther T, Richardson L, Whelton R, Beadle-Brown J, Apps J, Rand S
QORU working paper
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Implementing personal health budgets within substance misuse services (2013)
Welch E, Caiels J, Bass R, Jones K, Forder J, Windle K
PSSRU Discussion Paper 2858, University of Kent
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The cost of implementing personal health budgets (2011)
Jones K, Forder J, Caiels J, Welch E, Windle K, Davidson, Dolan P, Glendinning C, Irvine A, King D
PSSRU Discussion Paper 2804, University of Kent
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Early experiences of implementing personal health budgets (2010)
Jones K, Caiels J, Forder J, Windle K, Welch E, Dolan P, Glendinning C, King D
PSSRU Discussion Paper 2726/2, University of Kent and London School of Economics
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Project Outline
Evaluation of the Personal Health Budgets Pilot (PSSRU Project Outline 91) (2010)
Jones K, Caiels J, Forder J, Windle, K
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Quality Measurement Framework programme. PSSRU Project Outline 67 (2007)
Forder J, Caiels J
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Research Summary
Perspectives on strengths-based approaches: social workers, commissioners and managers - Plain English summary of research findings (2022)
J Caiels, B Silarova, A Milne, J Beadle-Brown
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DP or working paper
Perspectives on strengths-based approaches: social workers, commissioners and managers (2022)
J Caiels, B Silarova, A Milne, J Beadle-Brown
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Taking a strengths-based approach to social work and social care: A literature review (2021)
Caiels J, Milne A, Beadle-Brown J
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ASCOT Easy Read: usability evaluation of an electronic adaptation (2019)
Razik K, Turnpenny A, Bradshaw J, Rand S, Towers A, Caiels J, Smith N
QORU working paper 2953
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Factor structure and construct validity of the easy-read Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT-ER) (2017)
Rand S, Towers A, Razik K, Turnpenny A, Bradshaw J, Caiels J, Smith N
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How can MAX help local authorities to use social care data to inform local policy? Maximising the value of survey data in adult social care [MAX] project. Executive Summary (2015)
Heath C, Malley J, Razik K, Jones K, Forder J, Fox D, Caiels J, Beecham J
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Using Proxies to assess Quality of Life: A Review of the Issues and Challenges (2015)
Rand S, Caiels J
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