Consumers' perspectives on their involvement in recognizing and responding to patient deterioration-Developing a model for consumer reporting.

Background: Adverse events occur in health care. Detection and reporting of deterioration therefore have a critical role to play. Patient and family member (consumer) involvement in patient safety has gained powerful support amongst global policymakers.

Analysis of social networks supporting the self-management of type 2 diabetes for people with mental illness.

Background: People with mental illness have been identified as being more likely to experience type 2 diabetes and the complications arising from this, necessitating more complex chronic illness self-management. Social support has been identified as a significant factor in the successful adoption of lifestyle change for people with type 2 diabetes, however people with mental illness often have impoverished social networks leading to greater reliance upon professional care givers. This study maps the support provided by formal (paid and professional carers) and informal networks to people with mental illness and type 2 diabetes, comparing the experiences of people with a spouse with those without one.

Social barriers to Type 2 diabetes self-management: the role of capital.

Approaches to self-management traditionally focus upon individual capacity to make behavioural change. In this paper, we use Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and capital to demonstrate the impact of structural inequalities upon chronic illness self-management through exploring findings from 28 semi-structured interviews conducted with people from a lower socioeconomic region of Adelaide, South Australia who have type 2 diabetes. The data suggests that access to capital is a significant barrier to type 2 diabetes self-management.

Barriers to collaboration in mental health services for older people: external agency views.

The need for mental health services for older people living in rural areas is increasing in South Australia. Providing such care requires coordination between several types of services across government, hospital and non-government sectors. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers to collaboration from the perspective of external aged care agencies.

Helping and hindering: perceptions of enablers and barriers to collaboration within a rural South Australian mental health network.

Objective: To evaluate clinicians' perceptions of what helps and hinders the delivery of mental health care across a service network in a rural setting.

Design: Qualitative, semistructured interviews were conducted with 10 individuals who work in one rural mental health care service network.

Setting: A regional centre in rural South Australia involving representatives of the mental health team, general practice, hospital, community health and nongovernment organisations.