.... KEYWORDS: COMMISSIONING; OLDER PEOPLE; USER INVOLVEMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Contact details: sue.tucker@manchester.ac.uk Introduction Strategic commissioning, the process of specifying, securing and monitoring services for a particular population, is a complex undertaking about which...

... PEOPLE; USER INVOLVEMENT Contact details: carol.smith@rnib.org.uk Introduction Making the Link is a Department of Health-funded project aimed at improving health and social care provision for older people with sight problems. It builds on the RNIB resource See Change, which was produced to support...

... as observations from self‐advocates themselves. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Learning Disability Partnership Boards Self‐Advocates User Involvement Empowerment Learning Disability feature Partnership Boards: Making Participation Real? Tricia Nicoll REGIONAL ADVISOR, NORTH EAST REGION...

... by the In Control programme. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Citizenship Self‐Determination User Involvement Direct Payments Empowerment feature In Control Simon Duffy VALUING PEOPLE SUPPORT TEAM, NATIONAL COORDINATOR OF IN CONTROL ABSTRACT This paper argues that human services should move...

... OF USERS; USER INVOLVEMENT Contact details: clareevansuser@yahoo.co.uk, Tel. 01249 815170 Background Wiltshire and Swindon Users Network (WSUN), an established organisation of service users, received funding of £50,000 from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to undertake a user-controlled Best Value Review...