Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 14 Issue 1

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

Evidence‐Informed Practice and Integrated Care: The Launch of research in practice for adults

Alison Petch

The implications of the debates about evidence and knowledge transfer are explored in the context of integrated working and in the wake of a new research utilisation agency for…

The Castlefields Integrated Care Model: The Evidence Summarised

David Lyon, Julia Miller, Kirsty Pine

This article presents and reviews the evidence from a pilot project in the North of England in which a social worker was based in a surgery and worked proactively with a district…

Integrated Team Working: You Can Get it if you Really Want it: Part I

Bob Hudson

The literature on inter‐professional working has not generally yielded evidence of great success, and this has led some to lose patience with the interprofessional enterprise…

Independent Mental Capacity Advocates

John Dow

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 provides that independent mental capacity advocates (IMCAs) must be consulted before certain decisions are made on behalf of people who lack capacity…

The New White Paper: Actions will Speak Louder than Words

Deborah Klee

The new White Paper on out‐of‐hospital and adult social care seems destined to bring new opportunities and challenges ‐ or are they new? Reflection on policy since the Griffiths…

Dreaming for Real: The Development of Partners for Inclusion

Julia Fitzpatrick

Partners for Inclusion aims to deliver person‐centred support services, following its dream of providing individualised supports for people to have real lives as valued citizens…

An Individual Budget in Practice

Caroline Tomlinson

This is a personal account of how a family moved from being passive recipients of care to being ‘in control’. Anticipating the expansion of such schemes with the forthcoming White…

Continuity and Connectivity: Who will Stabilise the Systems that Support Health Care Outside Hospital?

Bob Sang

The success of the forthcoming policy promoting health care outside hospitals will depend on achievement of fully integrated services, especially for individuals at risk of…

Practice‐Based Commissioning and the Future of Partnership‐Based Integrated Care

Robin Lorimer

With practice‐based commissioning becoming a requirement in the NHS, this article reviews its potential impact on the established practical arrangements for health and social care…