Janice Robinson, Penny Banks, Angela Greatley and Jan Stevenson
The NHS Plan promises improvements in the National Health Service that could benefit many people with long‐term illness or disability. Some longstanding problems concerning the…
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The NHS Plan promises improvements in the National Health Service that could benefit many people with long‐term illness or disability. Some longstanding problems concerning the funding and provision of their care and support will remain unchanged. Moreover, there are dangers of new conflicts between the NHS and local government that may hinder the delivery of integrated services and health improvement strategies.
Managing operational change using a whole‐systems approach will be the key to re‐engineering services, including intermediate care and rehabilitation for older people. This…
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Managing operational change using a whole‐systems approach will be the key to re‐engineering services, including intermediate care and rehabilitation for older people. This article outlines an approach used in Sheffield which is based on eight categories of need.
The important role of comprehensive assessment in recognising the need for and organising often complex care regimes for individual older people is widely accepted. However, the…
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The important role of comprehensive assessment in recognising the need for and organising often complex care regimes for individual older people is widely accepted. However, the process of carrying out such assessments continues to present challenges to those involved, as it frequently requires people to work in different settings and across professional and agency boundaries. This paper explores the situation in the light of current working practice and policy directives. More work will be needed if small‐scale examples of good practice are to be applied across whole systems.
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Doug Duckworth and Catherine Driscoll
‘What is to be done with our residential homes?’ The article examines the approach taken by one authority to modernising run‐down homes on a fast track, while doing justice to the…
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‘What is to be done with our residential homes?’ The article examines the approach taken by one authority to modernising run‐down homes on a fast track, while doing justice to the needs and anxieties of the staff and residents and without mortgaging the future.
Craig Furfine, Sara Lo and Daniel Kamerling
Aurelia Dimas had been sent to investigate the various properties being offered by the State of California in the form of a sale-leaseback agreement. The opportunity was perfect…
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Aurelia Dimas had been sent to investigate the various properties being offered by the State of California in the form of a sale-leaseback agreement. The opportunity was perfect for her firm, Orrington Financial Partners, which had recently expanded its fixed-income portfolio to include real estate. The wide range of offerings in the Golden State Portfolio provided both diversification and stability over a period of decades. She had spent the last week walking the halls of each and every building to see the offering first hand. Now the task of valuing the portfolio rested on her shoulders.
By reading and analyzing this case, students will be exposed to real estate valuation and understand the issues with a sale-leaseback investment. The objectives are obtained by requiring students to justify how and why they make adjustments to the cash flow forecasts provided to them by a real estate advisory firm, explain their methodology for arriving at a specific value for a piece (or a portfolio) of commercial property, and debate the pros and cons of a sale-leaseback structure.
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