Professional Guides
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Long-form professional guidance developed through PMH's direct consultancy experience with NHS Trusts, Local Authorities and care providers - designed to become lasting reference material for health and social care organisations.
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PMH's Professional Guides are long-form, evergreen publications designed to serve as authoritative references. They translate complex professional challenges into structured, actionable guidance that organisations can implement with confidence.
Evidence-Based
Every guide draws on PMH's original research and decades of organisational consultancy - not generic advice.
Framework-Connected
Each guide links to the PMH frameworks, consultancy services and Academy programmes that bring the guidance to life.
Practical Reference
Structured for ongoing use within organisations - not one-time reading. Designed as working professional resources.
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Transforming Dementia Care: Person-Centred and Person-Led Strategies That Actually Work
Dementia care transforms when organisations stop asking people to fit the system and start designing the system around the person. This professional guide examines why task-based dementia care fails, what person-led practice actually requires, and how organisations can implement sustainable change that improves outcomes for people living with dementia, their families and the workforce.
Bridging Gaps in Care: A Systemic Approach to Complex Case Management
The challenge is often not the complexity of the person, but the complexity of the system around them. This professional guide provides a systemic framework for organisations managing complex cases across fragmented health and social care systems, addressing pathway gaps, accountability structures, multi-agency coordination and person-centred practice.
The Legal Framework for Safeguarding Adults: A Senior Leader's Guide to the Mental Capacity Act, DoLS and Restrictive Practice
A comprehensive practice guide for senior health and social care leaders navigating the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Court of Protection, human rights obligations and restrictive practice. Designed to bridge the gap between legal knowledge and organisational implementation.
Designing Effective Care Pathways Across Health, Social Care and the Voluntary Sector
Effective pathways are not created by connecting services on paper. They are created when organisations share responsibility for the person's journey. This guide provides a practical framework for designing integrated care pathways that coordinate health, social care and voluntary sector provision around person-centred outcomes rather than organisational convenience.
Trauma-Informed Care in Practice: Building Safer, More Compassionate Services for Vulnerable Adults
Trauma-informed care is not another intervention to add to an already demanding workload. It is a fundamentally different way of leading, thinking and delivering care - one that asks not 'What is wrong with this person?' but 'What has happened to this person, and how can we respond in a way that does not cause further harm?' This professional guide provides organisational leaders with a practical framework for embedding trauma-informed approaches across complex care services.
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Bridging Gaps in Care: A Systemic Approach to Complex Case Management
The challenge is often not the complexity of the person, but the complexity of the system around them. This professional guide provides a systemic framework for organisations managing complex cases across fragmented health and social care systems, addressing pathway gaps, accountability structures, multi-agency coordination and person-centred practice.
The Legal Framework for Safeguarding Adults: A Senior Leader's Guide to the Mental Capacity Act, DoLS and Restrictive Practice
A comprehensive practice guide for senior health and social care leaders navigating the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Court of Protection, human rights obligations and restrictive practice. Designed to bridge the gap between legal knowledge and organisational implementation.
Designing Effective Care Pathways Across Health, Social Care and the Voluntary Sector
Effective pathways are not created by connecting services on paper. They are created when organisations share responsibility for the person's journey. This guide provides a practical framework for designing integrated care pathways that coordinate health, social care and voluntary sector provision around person-centred outcomes rather than organisational convenience.
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