Hi everyone
I am based in NW England working in Community Mental Health in Ormskirk. I'm a member of the BCS Nursing Specialist Group, RCN IN group and been interested in IT in health since 1980. I wrote computer aided learning programs on the BBC micro - yes I'm getting on a bit... ;-)
I've done work in data standards, and on the NHS CRS local implementation. Since 1998 I've had a website for a health and social care model called Hodges model. The site is static and needs completely revamping. I'm learning Drupal (and Ruby) to create a new website and possibly a community.
What is Hodges' model? Please find attached two papers which include the same introduction about how the model was created. Here's a brief overview....
Originally created in the UK by Brian E Hodges -
Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model [h2cm]
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
can help map health, social care and other issues, problems AND solutions. The model takes a situated and multi-contextual view across four knowledge domains:
* Interpersonal;
* Sociological;
* Empirical;
* Political.
Our links pages cover each care (knowledge) domain e.g. Interpersonal:
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/links.htm
This includes 'mental health', 'therapies', 'ideas', 'e-learning', 'human computer interaction', 'education' and 'accessibility', ...
I've also a blog 'Welcome to the QUAD'
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
Szeged 2008 was great and I'll be in Paris for Drupalcon 2009 - hope to see you there and there is a NW Drupal group that meets in Manchester.
Please get in touch if you are interested in getting involved.
Best regards,
Peter Jones
h2cmuk at yahoo.co.uk
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk
h2cm: help2Cmore - help-2-listen - help-2-care
http://twitter.com/h2cm