Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 10 Issue 3

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

User Involvement: Time to get Serious

Peter Beresford

Social Exclusion and Education

Peter Mittler, Sonia Jackson, Judy Sebba

This overview of policy and policy implementation is based on three individual papers presented in November 2001, and on their discussion by Fellows of the Centre for Social…

Integrating Health and Social Care: Commentaries on the Case Studies in MCC 10.2

Three expert commentaries have been written about the approaches to health and social care integration in Sandwell, Hertfordshire and Barking & Dagenham which were described in…

Seen and Heard: Using Research Findings to Develop Services

Peter Fanshawe

The paper describes how children's services in Wiltshire have been involved in research (in collaboration with Barnardo's) and have attempted to make research findings count in…

How to Develop Needs‐Led, Evidence‐Based Services

Michael Little, Roger Bullock, Jill Madge, Ignacia Arruabarrena

A method of fashioning needs‐led and evidence‐based services on a multi‐agency basis is described. The approach is based on research but is designed for application by…

Evaluation of the Integration of Health and Social Services in Somerset: Part 2 ‐ Lessons for Other Localities

Pauline Gulliver, Edward Peck, David Towell

In April 1999, Somerset Health Authority and Somerset County Council launched the first fully integrated adult mental health service in England, made up of a joint commissioning…

Promoting Patient and Public Involvement in Primary Health Care: Part 1 ‐ Literature Review

Stephen Tee

Primary care groups are required to demonstrate that patients and the public are involved in the planning, delivery and evaluation of the services they provide. However, a review…

Making Connexions

John Dow

A legal eye is cast over the new Connexions services, describing their constitutions and responsibilities. Specific reference is made to the needs of young people with…