Care Staff in Transition Care Staff in Transition P Allen , J Pahl , L Quine Her Majesty's Stationery Office 164pp £9.65 0-11-321209-7 [Formula: see text].
Community care for people with mental handicaps has long been Government policy. Care Staff in Transition is a research book which examines the impact on those nursing staff making the transition from the once relative security of large, long-stay NHS hospitals to local authority community homes - the current trend in mental handicap services' philosophy.