Common Experiences of Staff Working in Integrated Health and Social Care Organisations: A European Perspective
Abstract
This paper presents a comparison of the views of staff working in 18 integrated care settings, undertaken as part of the PROCARE study of integrated health and social care. The data reveals some apparent commonalities across the nine European countries. Increased job satisfaction was an advantage of integrated working, but respondents also reported difficulties in working with hospitals or medical professionals, and continued barriers to integrated working generally. Overall, single standalone organisations such as home care teams reported the clearest benefits from integrated working, while cross‐agency models continued to encounter significant barriers to health and social care integration.
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Citation
Coxon, K. (2005), "Common Experiences of Staff Working in Integrated Health and Social Care Organisations: A European Perspective", Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 13-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/14769018200500012
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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