Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 13 Issue 2

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

Will Care at Home Replace Care Homes?

Tony Rice

Nursing and residential care homes provide familiar and safe environments where any risks to individuals are minimised. But equally important is maintaining a sense of…

Partnership Working and the Children's Services Agenda: Is it Feasible?

Bob Hudson

The modes of governance underpinning public sector services have been reshaped several times in the post‐war period, leaving a mixture of command and control, marketisation and…

Common Experiences of Staff Working in Integrated Health and Social Care Organisations: A European Perspective

Kirstie Coxon

This paper presents a comparison of the views of staff working in 18 integrated care settings, undertaken as part of the PROCARE study of integrated health and social care. The…

Key Messages for Successful Implementation of a Specialist Community Rehabilitation Service

Nina Bailey

This paper considers the experience of developing and implementing a community‐based multidisciplinary rehabilitation service in the City of Wolverhampton. It outlines the process…

Single Assessment Process in Hertfordshire: Investing in Change Management

Stephen Casson, Dorothy Skidmore

This paper describes how Hertfordshire met the challenge of providing a training programme to improve services for older people, with the introduction of single assessment, in the…

The Freedom of Information Act

John Dow

This article highlights some of the key features of the Freedom of Information Act and considers its implications for health and social services authorities.

Interprofessional Mentorship: Taking on the Challenge

Michelle Marshall, Frances Gordon

The current emphasis on the development of an interprofessional workforce in health and social care puts interprofessional learning at the heart of undergraduate curricula. This…

Commissioning Information for People with Learning Difficulties

Jackie Rodgers, Ruth Townsley

Organisations need to think about how to share information with people with learning difficulties. This paper draws on findings from a recent research project to inform the…