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By Oonagh
O'Brien and Ruth Lowbury
A report of findings
from a project to map and facilitate
the development of service networks
in four parts of England. The report
presents a series of recommendations
arising from the project and a short
list of learning points about facilitating
factors and barriers to networking.
With introductory sections describing
the genesis of the project and the
fast-changing policy context, the
body of the report discusses the findings
from interviews and workshops with
service providers, users and commissioners
in the South East (Surrey, Sussex
and Kent), West and North Yorkshire,
the West Midlands and the South West.
The learning from this project has
fed into our more recent work on
standards and networks for NHS HIV
services.
The report is available
as a
downloadable pdf file. If you
would like to order a hard copy, please
contact us.
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A
pamphlet rethinking HIV tests, published
in September 1998. It is designed
for health care workers in hospitals
and general practice who might not
feel confident offering an HIV test
to their patients and suggests appropriate
ways to provide the test and communicate
the results. It emphasises that counselling
is no longer considered necessary
for a person to give informed consent
to the test.