Micro-Enterprise and Personalisation : : What Size Is Good Care? / / Catherine Needham, Kerry Allen, Kelly Hall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Needham, Catherine,; Allen, Kerry,; Hall, Kelly,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 4 Black and White

Shifts to independent delivery of health and social care services have led to increased numbers of micro-enterprises. Could these tiny organisations with just 5 or fewer employees be the best way of delivering cost-effective health and social care services in the context of decreased budgets and increased demands? What size is 'just right' for a care provider? This book explores size as an independent variable in care services, comparing outcomes and value for money across micro, small, medium and large organisations. Using interviews and surveys with 108 people using services and carers in 27 case-study organisations it focuses on the contribution micro-enterprises can make to the care sector.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: what size is ‘just right’ for a care provider? -- Why study size? -- Enterprise and care -- Methods for co-productive research -- What it means to be micro -- Micro-enterprises: better outcomes at a lower cost -- Enacting personalisation on a micro scale -- Micro innovation: what, how and who? -- How micro-enterprise performs -- Sustainability: are micro-enterprises built to last? -- Conclusion: scaling down? -- Site one interview schedule -- Adapted ASCOT tool -- Developing the innovation theme codes -- References -- Index