Private Sector Policies for Caregiving Employees: A Survey of Scottish Companies

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARY L. M. GILHOOLY ◽  
CALUM REDPATH
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Older People ◽  
Elder Care ◽  
Community Care ◽  
The Public ◽  
Chamber Of Commerce ◽  
Flexible Working ◽  
Mentally Impaired ◽  
The Uk

The aim of the study was to examine Scottish private sector employers' policies with regard to flexible working arrangements for carers of physically and mentally impaired older people. The questions addressed by this study were as follows : (1) Are employers aware of the needs of carers? (2) To what extent do they view carers' needs or responsibilities as problematic? (3) What proportion of companies have specific policies regarding flexible working arrangements to accommodate carers' responsibilities? (4) What is the ‘nature’ of these policies? (5) Are flexible policies with regard to caregiving responsibilities viewed by companies as part of ‘health promotion’ in the workplace? (6) In what ways do company characteristics influence policy on carers' responsibilities?, and (7) What, if any, initiatives have been adopted to help employees plan for caregiving responsibilities? One thousand questionnaires were sent to companies drawn from the Scottish Chamber of Commerce National Directory 1993; 32 per cent were returned completed and in time for analysis. The majority (92 per cent) of companies had never previously considered the issue of employees' elder care responsibilities. Although expressing considerable sympathy, as well as some responsiveness and flexibility with regard to working arrangements for caregiving employees, the results of the survey indicate that Scottish companies in the private sector are providing little in the way of direct or indirect support to the UK community care reforms. However, informal contacts during the project indicated that the public and voluntary sectors may be more flexible and have begun to develop specific policies with regard to the needs of caregiving employees.

Transitioning towards low carbon solidarity economies?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter North
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The Public ◽  
Diverse Economies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Socially Excluded

Building on the diverse economies perspective of JK Gibson-Graham, this chapter discusses how conceptions of just and sustainable economies in the context of the Anthropocene can be generated and, more importantly, performed through social and solidarity economies in the global North. It reviews concepts of the SSE in the global North, and discusses the extent that the UK social economy sector has been tamed and neoliberalised as more antagonistic conceptions of co-operative and grassroots economies created by green and socialist activists in the 1970s and 1980s have been transformed into neoliberal conceptions of social enterprise, with an inbuilt assumption that the private sector is more effective than the public. It discusses how in conditions of austerity social enterprise can legitimate the abandonment of socially excluded communities, and that to counter this, the social economy sector in the UK should develop more antagonistic perspectives, learning from Latin Americans. Finally, it discusses the contribution of Transition Initiatives in rekindling conceptions of grassroots sustainable economies.

The changing context of advanced practice nursing within the UK community care setting

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 581-586
Author(s):  
Barry Hill ◽  
Sadie Diamond-Fox ◽  
Aby Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Community Care ◽  
Advanced Practice Nursing ◽  
Advanced Practice ◽  
Advanced Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Independent Prescribing ◽  
Consultation Skills ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Additional Education ◽  
And Training

Advanced practice nursing (APN) roles have developed partly to address demand and workforce issues. In community care settings and general practice, an advanced nursing practitioner is generally understood to mean a nurse who has undertaken additional education and training in clinical assessment, including history-taking and physical examination, clinical reasoning and independent prescribing, so they can safely manage patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions. Capabilities in the Skills for Health framework cover everything from communication and consultation skills, practising holistically and personalised care, to working with colleagues and in teams. The framework is intended to ensure advanced nursing practitioners work to an advanced level. It is also designed to support them to demonstrate and evidence their capabilities to service commissioners, employers, people accessing healthcare and the public.

Cancer Research UK’S obesity campaign in 2018 and 2019: effective health promotion or perpetuating the stigmatisation of obesity?

2020 ◽  
pp. medethics-2020-106192
Author(s):  
Natasha Varshney
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Cancer Research ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Important Message ◽  
Public Health Message ◽  
The Uk

In 2018 and 2019 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) launched a controversial advertising campaign to inform the British public of obesity being a preventable cause of cancer. On each occasion the advertisements used were emotive and provoked frustration among the British public which was widely vocalised on social media. As well serving to educate the public of this association, the advertisements also had the secondary effect of acting as health promotion through social marketing, a form of advertising designed to influence behavioural changes. As CRUK delivered a public health message through its campaign, the advertisements should be held according to the ethical principles which underpin healthcare in the UK. This article evaluates whether the advertisements used by CRUK in 2018 and 2019 fulfilled the ethical principles of beneficence, autonomy, non-maleficence and justice. It is found that while providing an important message, the oversimplification of obesity as being the result of personal decisions ignored the complex aetiology and served to stigmatise the target demographic, potentially disengaging them from the message. Additionally, posting cancer as the consequence of obesity invokes feelings of fear due to its connotations of suffering and premature death. Based on available evidence, the use of fear in social marketing does not create sustained behavioural change. This essay recommends that CRUK discontinue its use of such strategies in its future social marketing endeavours.

Public concerns will slow EU and UK privatisation

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
The Political ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Cost ◽  
Current Leadership ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Public Concerns

Subject Privatisation moves. Significance The UK Labour Party reaffirmed its objective of renationalising several privatised utilities and taking over projects funded by public-private partnerships at its September 24-27 annual party conference. The plan to shift back to public ownership has proved contentious with business as indicative of hostility to the private sector but popular with the public which associates privatisation with higher prices and poorer service quality. Impacts Renationalisation would be likely to use up much of a future Labour government’s political capital. The political cost would be regarded by Labour’s current leadership and its supporters as a price worth paying to honour a defining pledge. While renationalisation would be symbolic, the fortunes of such a government would depend more on its handling of the economy.

scholarly journals What factors promote or inhibit implementation of a new procedure for screening and treatment of malnutrition in community settings? A prospective process evaluation of theImplementing Nutrition Screening in Community Care for Older People(INSCCOPe) project (UK)

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. e023362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Bracher ◽  
Jane Murphy ◽  
Katherine Steward ◽  
Kathy Wallis ◽  
Carl R May
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Process Evaluation ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Routine Care ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
Nutrition Screening ◽  
Ethical Approval ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Care For Older People

IntroductionMalnutrition remains underdetected, undertreated and often overlooked by those working with older people in primary care in the UK. A new procedure for screening and treatment of malnutrition is currently being implemented by a large National Health Service (NHS) trust in England, incorporating a programme of training for staff working within Integrated Community Teams and Older People’s Mental Health teams. Running in parallel, the Implementing Nutrition Screening in Community Care for Older People process evaluation study explores factors that may promote or inhibit its implementation and longer term embedding in routine care, with the aim of optimising sustainability and scalability.Methods and analysisImplementation will be assessed through observation of staff within a single area of the trust, in addition to the procedure development and delivery group (PDDG). Data collection will occur at three observation points: prior to implementation of training, baseline (T0); 2 months following training (T1); and 8 months following training (T2). Observation points will consist of a survey and follow-up semistructured telephone interview with staff. Investigation of the PDDG will involve: observations of discussions around development of the procedure; semistructured telephone interviews prior to implementation, and at 6 months following implementation. Quantitative data will be described using frequency tables reporting by team type, healthcare provider role group, and total study sample (Wilcoxon rank-sum and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests may also be conducted if appropriate. Audio and transcription data will be analysed using Nomarlization Process Theory as a framework for deductive thematic analysis (using the NVIVO CAQDAS software package).Ethics and disseminationEthical approval for the study has been granted through institutional ethical review (Bournemouth University); NHS Research Ethics committee approval was not required. Dissemination will occur through presentations to academic and practitioner audiences and publication results in peer-reviewed academic journals.

scholarly journals Workplace pensions and remuneration in the public and private sectors in the UK

2016 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. R30-R37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Cribb ◽  
Carl Emmerson
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Defined Benefit ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Reforms ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Workplace Pensions ◽  
Defined Benefit Pensions

We estimate the changing value of workplace pensions in the UK and incorporate their value into an estimate of the public sector pay differential. Falling pension membership in the private sector and growing value of public service pensions led to a significant increase in the estimated public sector pay differential from 1997 to 2009, even though headline pay grew faster in the private sector. From 2009 to 2012, although pay grew faster in the public sector, reforms to public service defined benefit pensions, particularly indexation to the CPI rather than RPI, significantly reduced the public pay differential.

Contracting Out Public Services to the Private Sector in the UK: Issues and Considerations

Global Jurist ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr.Farouq Al-Shibli
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Government Contracts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
Public Money ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Private Sector Involvement

AbstractDelivery high-quality services to people in a wide range of social fields and improve the most living standards are considered the main objectives for any government. Many countries, including the UK, felt the need for managerial reforms in the public sector after the global economic crisis, and several steps were taken to introduce new managerial public administration including the private sector involvement which was the only practical solution to encourage national economic growth. However, it was witnessed that the UK government could not successfully complete some of its projects carried out with private sectors, resulting in the waste of financial resources and effect negatively on the quality services delivered to people. This paper therefore aims to highlight the pros/cons of UK government contracts in order to propose various suggestions for the promotion of public private partnership (PPP), and for effective management of these contracts that will prevent the wasting of public money.

scholarly journals Is commercial/private sector access to administrative data inevitable?

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Porteous
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Data Use ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Uk

BackgroundCurrently in the UK, access to publicly collected administrative data for use in research, is only available to accredited researchers. However, administrative data may be of interest to commercial or private sector organisations, some of whom have already controversially been partnering with universities and health researchers in the recent case of an NHS Trust partnering with Google Deep Mind. ObjectivesHow do we deal with the issue of commercial/private sector access openly and critically as a society? MethodThis work will present the current landscape of commercial access to administrative data use and the results of a focus group with members of the public. Presented will be the views of the focus group in relation to different categories of commercial organisations and whether they should or should not be allowed access to administrative data and what conditions (if any) should be in place. FindingsInitial findings indicate commercial access may be acceptable, but this raises new issues for society to consider about the role and extent of commercial/private sector reach.

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