Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 10 Issue 5

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

Accountabilities, Centralisation and Partnerships

Mike Sheaff

Health and social services are being urged to establish clearer lines of accountability, while also developing innovative partnership working. For both goals to be achieved, it is…

Adaptations: Key Evidence for Managers

Frances Heywood

Research into the effectiveness of housing adaptations (Heywood, 2001) showed how housing adaptations contribute powerfully to key national policy objectives in health and social…

Working in Partnership with Users in Primary Care: Sharing a Diagnosis of Dementia

Alisoun Milne, Heather Wilkinson

This paper presents the findings of two research projects focusing on sharing a diagnosis of dementia. The first paper analyses the attitudes of GPs towards early diagnosis and…

Any Complaints?

John Dow

This article considers the role played by complaints procedures within social services and the NHS and current government proposals for reform. It looks at the impact on…

Development of Integrated Children's Services in Exeter: A Case Study

Miles Hapgood, John Shaw

This article describes the experience of designing and implementing a joint health/social services/education strategy for children with special needs and their families in the…

Children's Services in Dorset: Incorporating Evidence‐Based Practice

David Keddie

This article provides a critical assessment of Dorset Social Services' membership of Research in Practice. It looks at the practical work that has been undertaken in partnership…

User Control in a Best Value Review of Direct Payments Project: A Case Study

Clare Evans

Service users in Wiltshire have had the opportunity of demonstrating how they could undertake a user‐controlled Best Value review including showing the variety of ways they chose…

A Response to the Best Value Review of Direct Payments in Wiltshire Undertaken by Disabled People

Ann Macfarlane

An independent disability equality consultant examines the wider context in which the innovative Wiltshire user‐controlled Best Value review of direct payments should be…