Bringing Health and Social Care Together for Older People: Wiltshire's Journey from Independence to Interdependence to Integration

Abstract

The paper charts ten years of movement in Wiltshire towards greater integration for health and social care, and highlights two important messages for others at different stages of the process. The first is that while an early strategic vision can create the right conditions, there can be no short cuts to effective integration. The second is that independent evaluation is necessary to produce the evidence to sustain initiatives and promote organisational and professional learning ‐ which are key ingredients of the change process.

Citation

Jones, R. (2004), "Bringing Health and Social Care Together for Older People: Wiltshire's Journey from Independence to Interdependence to Integration", Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 27-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/14769018200400006