District nurses and home carers 3: project evaluation.

This article, the last in a series of three, discusses the evaluation of a project established to provide a programme of education for social services' home carers that focused on the development of skills relating to care work. This education was delivered by district nurses (DNs) to address a number of problems associated with the provision of personal care identified by the home carers and their DN colleagues. An action research framework was used to improve collaborative working between the staff of the two disciplines.