Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 13 Issue 4

Practical evidence for service improvement

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Table of contents

New Labour and the Public Sector: A Tale of Two Green Papers

Bob Hudson

Public sector reform will be at the heart of Labour's third term of office. The changes under way or planned in children's services and adult social care services in England are…

Measuring Outcomes in the ‘New’ Children's Services

Nick Axford, Vashti Berry

This article seeks to help senior local policy‐makers, managers and practitioners in children's services to develop robust but realistic and manageable strategies for measuring…

The Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004

John Dow

This article looks at the key provisions of the Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004 and examines how far it represents a change to existing law.

Workplace Health Promotion in Domiciliary Care — an Austrian Project

Susanne Hickel, Tamara Palkovich

This article reports practical experiences with workforce health promotion in domiciliary care arising from an ongoing EU‐funded Austrian project. We review research‐based…

Implementing Health Scrutiny: Meeting the Challenge in one Local Authority

Jonathan Wistow, Sajda Banaras

This article provides insights into how the health scrutiny function has performed in its first year of operation in a unitary authority in the North of England, through a case…

Profiling Intermediate Care Patients using the Single Assessment Process: A Road to Better Service Provision?

Mathew Mackenzie, Iain Carpenter, Kathy Kotiadis

This paper demonstrates that three intermediate care services in Shepway, East Kent each cater for distinct patient groups, and that data from a single assessment process (SAP…

Cover of Journal of Integrated Care

ISSN:

1476-9018

Online date, start – end:

1996

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Professor Axel Kaehne