James Caiels

Senior Research Fellow

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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

DP or working papers

DP or working paper

How can MAX help local authorities to use social care data to inform local policy? (Infographic) (2015)

Al-Tahhan, Nat

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How can MAX help local authorities to use social care data to inform local policy? (Executive summary) (2015)

Heath C, Malley J, Razik K, Jones K, Forder J, Fox D, Caiels J, Beecham J

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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 (2015)

Heath C, Malley J, Razik K, Jones K, Forder J, Fox D, Caiels J, Beecham J

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ASCOT Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit: Main Guidance v2.1 (2011)

Netten A, Beadle-Brown J, Caiels J, Forder J, Malley J, Smith N, Towers A, Trukeschitz B, Welch E, Windle K

PSSRU Discussion Paper 2716/3, University of Kent

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Development Studies for the National Adult Social Care User Experience Survey: Technical Report (2010)

Caiels J, Fox D, McCarthy M, Smith N, Malley J, Beadle-Brown J, Netten A, Towers A

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A Report on the Development Studies for the National Social Care User Experience Survey (2010)

Malley J, Caiels J, Fox D, McCarthy M, Smith N, Beadle-Brown J, Netten A, Towers A

PSSRU Discussion Paper 2721, University of Kent

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Measuring Outcomes of Information and Advice Services: Final Report (2010)

Windle K, Caiels J, Welch E, Netten A, Masrani R, Welch E, Forder J

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Measuring the Outcomes of Low-level Services: Final Report (2010)

Caiels J, Forder J, Malley J, Netten A, Windle K

PSSRU Discussion Paper 2699, University of Kent

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Measuring Outcomes in Social Care: Second Interim Report (2008)

Forder J, Towers A, Caiels J, Beadle-Brown J, Netten A

PSSRU Discussion Paper 2542, University of Kent

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Measuring Outcomes in Social Care: Conceptual Development and Empirical Design. Quality Measurement Framework Project. PSSRU interim report (2007)

Forder J, Netten A, Caiels J, Smith J, Malley J

PSSRU Discussion Paper 2422, University of Kent

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Conference presentation outputs

Conference presentation output

Personalisation and Prevention in England (2011)

Welch E, Caiels J

Boston, USA

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Conference presentation output

Personalisation and Prevention in England (2011)

Welch E, Caiels J

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Conference presentation output

Personalisation and Prevention in England (2011)

Welch E, Caiels J,

Symposium at Social Policy Association

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Manuscripts

Manuscript

Implementing personal health budgets: Opportunities and challenges for the NHS (2016)

Jones K, Caiels J, Welch E, Windle K, Forder J, Glendinning C, King D

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Blogs

Blog

Meeting local information needs with ASCS and PSS SACE data (Blog) (2015)

Heath C, Malley J, Razik K, Jones K, Forder J, Caiels J, Beecham J

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Unallocateds

Unallocated

Letter to the Editor re: McEwan et al (2019) Moving on from Quality Assurance: Exploring Systems — Outcomes in Disability Services (2020)

Rand S, Towers A-M, Caiels J

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