Davey, Vanessa


Ms Vanessa Davey  

Department

Position held

Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU)

Research Officer

Experience keywords:

consumer directed care; intermediate care; direct payments; commissioning

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Vanessa's work considers the impacts of new forms of social care commissioning, for the service user and for the social care economy. Much of her recent work has been focused on the impact of service user control and choice through consumer directed care.

Key projects include a national evaluation of direct payments to older people for the Department of Health in England (2004-2007). This evaluated outcomes for older people using direct payments; arrangements for direct payments; the provision of support to users (by direct payments support organisations) and its cost, and the direct payments workforce. Recently work for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has been on older people’s involvement in commissioning. This looks at recent development in commissioning designed to strengthen the role of service user and citizen involvement in commissioning and considers what changes are required to place service user choice at the heart of all decisions of service delivery. These include: routes to involvement mapped around strategic partnership working within the local health and social care economy; involvement at community level via communities of place and communities of interest; and involvement at the individual level through self-directed commissioning models such as personal budgets, individual outcomes-based commissioning and person-centred planning.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

ConsultancyHealthcarePolicy and Regulatory BodiesPublic Administration

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Spain; Netherlands; France; Belgium; Germany; Sweden; UK; Italy

Languages:

Spanish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]; French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6376

Publications

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2011

Wistow, Gerald and Waddington, Eileen and Davey, Vanessa (2011) Involving older people in commissioning: more power to their elbow? Joseph Rowntree Foundation, London, UK

2009

Davey, Vanessa and D'Amico, Francesco and Knapp, Martin (2009) Estimating unit costs for Direct Payments Support organisations. In: Curtis, Lesley, (ed.) Unit costs of health and social care 2009. University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, pp. 15-20. ISBN 9781902671642

2007

Davey, Vanessa and Snell, Tom and Fernández, José-Luis and Knapp, Martin and Tobin, Roseanne and Jolly, Debbie and Perkins, Margaret and Kendall, Jeremy and Pearson, Charlotte and Vick, Nicola and Swift, Paul and Mercer, Geof and Priestley, Mark (2007) Schemes providing support to people using direct payments: a UK survey. Personal Social Services Research Unit, London, UK

Davey, Vanessa and Fernández, José-Luis and Knapp, Martin and Vick, Nicola and Jolly, Debbie and Swift, Paul and Tobin, Roseanne and Kendall, Jeremy and Ferrie, Jo and Pearson, Charlotte and Mercer, Geof and Priestley, Mark (2007) Direct payments: a national survey of direct payments policy and practice. Personal Social Services Research Unit, London, UK

Fernández, José-Luis and Kendall, Jeremy and Davey, Vanessa and Knapp, Martin (2007) Direct payments in England: factors linked to variations in local provision. Journal of social policy, 36 (1). pp. 97-121. ISSN 0047-2794

2006

Davey, Vanessa (2006) Social care for older people in England. Newsletter of the Observatory for the Development of Social Services in Europe, 2 pp. 4-6. ISSN 1616-7597

Davey, Vanessa (2006) Direct payments rates in England. In: Curtis, Lesley and Netten, Ann, (eds.) Units costs of health and social care 2006. Personal Social Services Research Unit, Canterbury, UK, pp. 23-28. ISBN 9711902671451

2005

Netten, Ann and Darton, Robin and Davey, Vanessa and Kendall, Jeremy and Knapp, Martin and Williams, Jacquetta and Fernández, José-Luis and Forder, Julien (2005) Understanding public services and care markets. King's Fund, London, UK

Netten, Ann and Darton, Robin and Davey, Vanessa and Kendall, Jeremy and Knapp, Martin and Williams, Jacquetta and Fernández, José-Luis and Forder, Julien (2005) Understanding public services and markets: summary paper of the report commissioned by the King's Fund for the care services inquiry. PSSRU Discussion Paper, 2123/2. Personal Social Services Research Unit, Canterbury, UK

Netten, Ann and Darton, Robin and Davey, Vanessa and Kendall, Jeremy and Knapp, Martin and Fernández, José-Luis and Forder, Julien (2005) Understanding public services and markets: report commissioned by the King's Fund for the Care Services Inquiry. Personal Social Services Research Unit, Canterbury, Kent

Davey, Vanessa and Fernández, José-Luis and Kendall, Jeremy and Knapp, Martin (2005) Direct payments implementation strategy evaluation. Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2004

Davey, Vanessa and Henwood, Melanie and Knapp, Martin (2004) Integrated commissioning for older people's services. LSE Health & Social Care discussion paper, 1833. Health & Social Care, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2003

Davey, Vanessa and Henwood, Melanie (2003) Loose connections. Community care, 1472 pp. 40-41. ISSN 0307-5508

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