An evaluation of the Cheshire Sexual Health Promotion project

This project report discusses an evaluation study of the Sexual Health Promotion project in Cheshire, which ran from 2000 to 2004.The project was commissioned by the steering group of the Sexual Health Promotion project and funded by South Cheshire Health Authority

Cheshire Children's Fund learning mentor service: An evaluation

This report describes a learning mentor service based in a number of Chester primary schools and assesses whether the service is benefiting users, meeting Children's Fund objectives, and how the service is performing.Commissioned and funded by Cheshire Children's Fund

The Boys and Girls Welfare Society’s Family Group Meetings Service: An evaluation for Cheshire Children’s Fund

© University of ChesterThe Children’s Fund is a national initiative established as part of the Government’s wider strategy to promote multi-agency working in preventative services for children and young people at risk of social exclusion. Cheshire Children’s Fund is the local response to the national initiative, and supports a county-wide programme of preventative work with children. One service, commissioned in respect of the theme of supporting families, is the Family Group Meetings Service, co-ordinated and managed by the Boys and Girls Welfare Society in collaboration with Cheshire County Council. This Service is based on a model of family group conferencing that differs quite markedly from traditional approaches to the management of child welfare problems in that families play an active and pivotal role in deciding the most appropriate way to meet their child’s needs. Internationally and nationally, there is evidence to suggest that this can be an effective model of provision. However, locally, the Service has experienced difficulties in establishing and maintaining a caseload of appropriate referrals that were effectively taken through the family group meeting process. The aim of the evaluation was to explore why this was the case by studying the implementation of the new Service in relation to the process of referral and mechanism of delivery

Nurse-led Telephone Triage in Primary Care An Evaluation in South Cheshire

© University of ChesterNurse telephone triage has been present in various health care settings, particularly accident and emergency (A&E) departments, for a number of years. Research has suggested that when planned and implemented carefully, employing experienced and trained nursing staff, nurse telephone triage in either A&E or its more recent primary care context may assist in reducing or reorganising workloads. Given the increased pressure upon primary care staff, the result of increased patient demand and a policy driven shift in health care, nurse telephone triage in this setting may be a welcome addition

The nurse practitioner in primary care: Alleviating problems of access?

This article is not available through ChesterRep.Improving access to primary care services is an essential component of the NHS modernization plan and the advent of independent nurse practitioners in primary care has focused attention on the extent to which this group of nurses can effectively substitute for GPs. This study was designed to explore the role of a nurse practitioner in primary care, particularly whether the provision of a nurse practitioner facilitated access to care that met the needs of patients. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 14 patients who had consulted with the nurse practitioner, 10 staff within the practice who had knowledge of the role, and the nurse practitioner herself. With the permission of interviewees, interviews were audiotaped, the tapes transcribed verbatim, and the data were coded by theme. It was perceived by both groups of interviewees that access to care had been improved in that there were more appointments available, appointments were longer than they had been previously and were available at different times of the day. However, some areas in which access was 'restricted' were articulated by staff interviewees, such as limitations to the nurse practitioner's prescribing and problems with referring patients to secondary care. Additionally, while access to a member of the primary healthcare team was improved for many patients, access to a specific member of the team, such as a GP, was not always improved. Concerns were also expressed about how the role of the nurse practitioner needed to be developed in the practice. It can be concluded from this study that, potentially, the role of nurse practitioner has much to offer in terms of addressing problems of access in primary care for some patients. However, this is not a straightforward solution and in order for the role to be effective several issues highlighted in this study require addressing

An exploration of the role of the nurse clinician in facilitating access to high quality primary care

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Nurse-led telephone triage in primary care An evaluation in South Cheshire

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