Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 12 Issue 6

User Involvement and Integrated Services: Using Personal Reflection to Inform the Future

Gail Mountain

User Empowerment

Janet Lewis

In Control

Simon Duffy

This paper argues that human services should move towards self‐directed support. If people have more control over their own individual support, they will be better able to control…

‘The Squeaky Wheel gets the Grease’: A Case Study of Service User Engagement in Service Development

Susan Nancarrow, Anna Johns, Wesley Vernon

This paper discusses the practicalities and limitations of establishing a service user consultation group to guide service developments, based on the evaluation of a podiatry…

Reflections on a Model of Empowered User Involvement

Clare Evans

Using her experience in working with a local authority and a large voluntary sector provider, the author describes a model which provides effective and challenging user…

Involving Patients and Service Users in Student Learning: Developing Practice and Principles

Frances Gordon, Fiona Wilson, Tim Hunt, Michelle Marshall, Claire Walsh

This paper describes work with patients/service users, students and educators, resulting in the identification of key issues to be addressed when planning patient/service user…

Learning Disability Partnership Boards: Making Participation Real?

Tricia Nicoll

This article considers the role and function of learning disability partnership boards. It focuses on how partnership boards have developed their skills in working in partnership…

Intermediate Care: Older People's Involvement and Experiences

Jill Manthorpe, Michelle Cornes

New service models such as intermediate care may find it difficult to involve older people in services that are time‐limited and unfamiliar. Their staff may perceive themselves as…