Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 10 Issue 6

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

Primary Care Partnerships — Progress and Problems

Anna Coleman, Caroline Glendinning

Primary care groups and trusts, social services and wider local authority departments are making good progress in developing partnerships in a rapidly changing policy environment…

REAL Evidence‐Based Practice Development: A Partnership Approach

Moira Barratt

This article examines what has been learnt about practice‐academic partnership from two Research in Practice projects aimed at supporting the development of evidence‐based…

Real Life Research: Building an Evidence Base for Intermediate Care

Tessa Trappes‐Lomax, Annie Ellis, Mary Fox

This is the third in a series of articles about trying to develop better evidence for a service on the health/social care interface. All are based on our experiences of carrying…

Setting Standards and Enhancing Choices

Pam Jones, Jill Manthorpe

This article reports on the process of involving older people in one local authority in the construction of standards for residential care. It draws on data from questionnaires…

Advocating Advocacy

John Dow

This article looks at the legal and policy context for the development of advocacy services and considers the legal issues which arise when developing standards and codes of…

Promoting Health and Active Life in Older Age: Lessons from Working with Standard 8 of the National Service Framework for Older People

Gillian Granville, Helen Bowers

This paper explores how Standard 8 of the NSF for Older People can help local services and communities address the health inequalities agenda. We introduce the initiatives being…

Involving Older People in the Implementation of the National Service Framework: Making Progress in the North West

David McNally, Michelle Cornes, Pat Leahy

The National Service Framework for Older People (DoH, 2001) is a ten‐year plan which aims radically to improve health services for older people. Central to the plan is the belief…

Making Valuing People Real in West Sussex: Meeting the Challenges for Partnership Boards

Andrew Tyson, Alicia Wood

Valuing People presents a range of challenges for managers and other stakeholders. Partnership boards are charged with leading the change process. The paper sets out the steps…