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Feeling the benefit : fluctuating illness and the world of welfare (2019)
Journal Article
Price, E., Walker, L., & Booth, S. (2020). Feeling the benefit : fluctuating illness and the world of welfare. Disability and society, 35(8), 1315-1336. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2019.1680346

This article explores the experiences of people living with fluctuating long-term conditions, with a particular focus on the UK welfare benefits system. Respondents in this study suggested that this system constitutes a critical barrier to maintainin... Read More about Feeling the benefit : fluctuating illness and the world of welfare.

‘I’m a person, you’re a person. We’re not plastic, we’re human beings’ : An ethnographic study of dignity in community nursing (2019)
Thesis
Stevens, E. L. (2019). ‘I’m a person, you’re a person. We’re not plastic, we’re human beings’ : An ethnographic study of dignity in community nursing. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4912838

This study explores dignity and human rights through the experiences of older patients and staff in a community nursing context. Previous empirical considerations of dignity in healthcare focus primarily on hospital-based care, and only a paucity of... Read More about ‘I’m a person, you’re a person. We’re not plastic, we’re human beings’ : An ethnographic study of dignity in community nursing.

Images depicting headache pain – a tool to aid the diagnosis of cluster headache: a pilot study (2019)
Journal Article
Buture, A., Boland, J. W., Ahmed, F., & Dikomitis, L. (2019). Images depicting headache pain – a tool to aid the diagnosis of cluster headache: a pilot study. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 12, 691-698. https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S207128

Introduction and objective: The diagnosis of primary headaches is based on the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-3). Cluster headache (CH), a debilitating primary headache, is often misdiagnosed as migraine. In the absence of b... Read More about Images depicting headache pain – a tool to aid the diagnosis of cluster headache: a pilot study.

An uncertain practice: social work support for disabled people and carers moving across local authority boundaries in England (2019)
Journal Article
White, C., Marsland, D., & Manthorpe, J. (2019). An uncertain practice: social work support for disabled people and carers moving across local authority boundaries in England. International Journal of Care and Caring, 3(3), 375-391. https://doi.org/10.1332/239788219X15538567227956

© Policy Press 2019. This article reports on a study of social work practice with care recipients choosing to relocate between English local administrative units. Data were collected from interviews with 20 social work practitioners from three areas,... Read More about An uncertain practice: social work support for disabled people and carers moving across local authority boundaries in England.

Digital technologies and dementia - training guide (2019)
Other
Wolverson, E., Paulson, K., White, C., Dunn, R., & Oxtoby, K. (2019). Digital technologies and dementia - training guide

This practical guide for group facilitators is now available to support training for people living with dementia/cognitive impairment in the use of digital technologies. The guide gives top tips including the importance of simple steps and the need... Read More about Digital technologies and dementia - training guide.

Technology for Families of People with Dementia (2019)
Book Chapter
Wolverson, E., Dunn, R., & White, C. (2019). Technology for Families of People with Dementia. In A. Astell, S. Smith, & P. Joddrell (Eds.), Using technology in dementia care : a guide to technology solutions for everyday living (139-158). Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Sustainable Hospital Transformation and Beyond (2019)
Book Chapter
Stericker, S., & Lawson, D. (2019). Sustainable Hospital Transformation and Beyond. In Hospital Transformation: From Failure to Success and Beyond (107-122). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15448-6

Much has been written about improvement and transformation in the NHS and is covered elsewhere in this book. The most significant challenge in the transformation process is ensuring that change or improvement is sustained over time, after the ‘initia... Read More about Sustainable Hospital Transformation and Beyond.

Effectiveness of interventions to support the early detection of skin cancer through skin self-examination: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Ersser, S., Effah, A., Dyson, J., Kellar, I., Thomas, S., McNichol, E., Caperon, E., Hewitt, C., & Muinonen-Martin, A. (2019). Effectiveness of interventions to support the early detection of skin cancer through skin self-examination: a systematic review and meta-analysis. British journal of dermatology, 180(6), 1339-1347. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.17529

Background
As skin cancer incidence rises, there is a need to evaluate early detection interventions by the public using skin self‐examination (SSE), however, the literature focuses on primary prevention. No systematic reviews have evaluated the effe... Read More about Effectiveness of interventions to support the early detection of skin cancer through skin self-examination: a systematic review and meta-analysis.