Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 10 Issue 1
Practical evidence for service improvement
Table of contents
Can Policy Making be Evidence‐Based?
Perri SixMinisters 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 LewisDeveloping 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 EdwardsThis 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 AthertonAfter 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 ParkerThis 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 BrandThis 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 DowThis 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 DowThis 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 DeanThe 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 LymberyThis paper presents the findings from the first stages of qualitative research into the provision of transitional residential rehabilitation in Nottinghamshire. Its purpose is to…
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1476-9018Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Professor Axel Kaehne