Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 10 Issue 1

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

Can Policy Making be Evidence‐Based?

Perri Six

Ministers are always calling for more evidence‐based interventions. Do they apply the same criterion to their own work of making policy? Perhaps surprisingly, policy making is not…

The Contribution of Research Findings to Practice Change

Janet Lewis

Developing the argument first put in an MCC article in 2001, the author discusses the relationship between knowledge and practice, and puts the case for ‘knowledge‐based change’.

What is ‘Knowledge’ in Social Care?

Amanda Edwards

This article reports on issues arising from consultations with key stakeholders about the way the new Social Care Institute for Excellence should undertake its work. It proposes a…

Changing Culture not Structure: Five Years of Research in Practice in Child Care

Celia Atherton

After reviewing the barriers to evidence based practice in social and health care generally, the Director of Research in Practice outlines the lessons learnt in the first five…

Evidence‐Based Policy and Practice: Health Services

Gillian Parker

This article examines the challenges of and barriers to generating and implementing evidence‐based policy and practice in health services. It describes how one of the NHS R&D…

Introducing the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

Don Brand

This article considers SCIE's origins, role and functions, and how its work relates to that of other organisations, including the new framework of regulatory bodies in social…

(1) From ‘Child Care’ to ‘Adult Care’

John Dow

This article looks at the division between child care and adult care services. It considers aspects of the legal framework which are different for adults and children and asks…

(2) Care Standards Act (Part 3)

John Dow

This is the third in a series of articles looking at the provisions of the Care Standards Act. This article will look at the establishment of the General Social Care Council and…

Care Home Environments, Rehabilitation and Older Persons: A Survey of Current Service Provision in England

Derek Ward, Martin Severs, Taraneh Dean

The emergence of the intermediate care agenda has added momentum to the debate on the use of alternative care settings for the delivery of rehabilitative interventions for older…

Transitional Residential Rehabilitation: What Helps to Make it Work?

Mark Lymbery

This paper presents the findings from the first stages of qualitative research into the provision of transitional residential rehabilitation in Nottinghamshire. Its purpose is to…