As a former Social Worker I am interested in the interface between health care and the community. It is a ‘broad and fuzzy’ area, and not easy to access information about issues that don’t fall directly within one discipline.
I am having trouble at present evaluating blogs, but I have put down a few sites and blogs that might give an insight into the massive range of issues being discussed. It is not possible to do justice to such a broad subject in a few links so I have just picked out a few that looked interesting from the results I got on the recommended search tools and I will just keep adding those I like to my favourite web sites page!
So this is a learning blog..not a recommended list and any feedback on the sites is welcome! :
This is a formal site , not a blog, on a whole range of community care issues
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/ as a starting point
And this is the 2007 conference on community care that has taken place this week highlighting hot topics and issues. ironically the RSS feed is to the 2006 conference but you can get to the 2007 conference details from there:
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/cclive/index.htm
The following blog might be of interest:
http://www.medhumanities.org/2007/04/conference_on_c.html
This is the current source of statistics on health and social care issues:
http://www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/primary-care
Good selection of sites.