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Health promotion and community care: the perceptions of users, purchasers and providers of community care services
Acknowledgments
This research was commissioned and funded by the Health Education Board for Scotland. However the views expressed do not necessarily represent those of the Health Education Board for Scotland.
Thanks to all those individuals, groups and organisations who assisted theresearch team in this project. We would particularly like to thank all of therespondents who spoke to the researchers for their time and valuableinformation.
Jenny Secker and latterly Jonathon Watson and the programme managers (GeorgeHowie, Lindsay MacHardy and Emma Witney) and Sara Maloney from the TrainingDivision at HEBS gave their time to the project steering group. ProfessorAlison Petch of the Nuffield Centre for Community Care Studies providedvaluable advice. Maddy Halliday, as consultant to the project, (now ActingCo-ordinator, Glasgow Healthy City Partnership) engaged us in stimulatingdiscussion and commented on the report.
We are very grateful to Jane Arnold, Liz Lee, Yvonne Spence and PatriciaDillon for carefully transcribing the audio tapes of the focus groups. Aspecial thanks to the project secretary, Shirley MacLean, for her skill andexpertise in co-ordinating telephone interviews, and in producing schedules andthe draft report. The production of the final reports was ably led by YvonneSpence. The groups were organised and facilitated by Alan Ross whoimplemented the study design with imagination and to a very short time-scale.The final analysis and report were brought together by Lisa Curtice.
For further information about this research please contact:
Lisa Curtice
Nuffield Centre for Community Care Studies
7 Lilybank Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8RZ
Tel: 0141-330-4194
email: gkua22@udcf.gla.ac.uk
or
Lindsay MacHardy
Health Education Board for Scotland
Woodburn House
Canaan Lane
Edinburgh
EH10 4SG
A summary version of this report is also available.