evidence for TCS

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I suppose it is the academic in me. If students wrote essays saying just: 'research shows,' or 'there is evidence,' without giving a reference, they get short shrift from their lecturers and examiners. Policy documents, like the 'Transforming Community Services' guides that come out of the DH are all full of such statements, which I find intensely irritating. Anyway, I traced their 'evidence says' statements back to the HSMC at University of Birmingham, and they have, indeed, produced a couple of wonderful summaries of the evidence, complete with references as well as pictures, summary bullet points and a table showing both the strength and the quality of evidence: all sorts of other things that make them readable, on: http://www.hsmc.bham.ac.uk/news/news/2009/7/transforming-community-service.shtmlYou could almost wonder why the DH didn't just make them available. Perhaps it is because of statements like:"The most successful (programmes) also tend to be based on a sound understanding of the underlying causes of health problems and are focused on addressing these root causes, rather than broader symptoms. . . . . Rather than merely setting up new initiatives, there may be a need to support managerial and clinician staff with training in root cause analysis and to seek out innovations which look deeper than surface level. Such transformations require a new way of thinking about how to support children and families, not merely new services, " page 3 of the one on children's services one, and "A lesson for the NHS, which is reinforced by countless other literature, is that use of technology merely to provide information is unlikely to transform the delivery of care or have tangible benefits for health and wellbeing," on page 9 of the health and well-being one.Sometimes evidence doesn't show what policy makers want it to show!best wishes Cowleysarahcowley183@...http://myprofile.cos.com/S124021COn

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