This article reviews the family foster care model practised in the small Belgian town of Geel. A historical introduction is followed by a description of a family foster care project in its current form. Issues are raised as to whether the current culture of care pathways, managed care, payment by results and an emphasis on 'cure' are conducive to recovery as promoted by the recovery model. Fina...

1: ‘I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want’ Sue Ashby, Lecturer, Keele University, & one of the older people from the research projectBackground: This paper unites the key learning following older people involvement as active members of a research steeringgroup evaluating and developing interprofessional working among health and social care staff working inintermediat...

An ex-patient draws on his own experience to suggest how life in mental hospital could be made more beneficial in simple ways and expresses reservations about the acceptance of patients back into the community.

Despite their size and complexity, mental hospitals have been scarcely touched by the management methods revolution of the last decade. The factors which complicate the use of new techniques in hospital management are not insurmountable.

BACKGROUND Nowadays, patient safety issue is among one of the main concerns of the hospital policy worldwide. This study aimed to evaluate the patient safety status in hospitals affiliated to Semnan city, using the WHO model for Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiatives (PSFHI) in summer 2014. METHODS That was a cross sectional descriptive study that addressed patient safety , which explai...