Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 14 Issue 2

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

The Implications of Individual Budgets

Simon Duffy

This article outlines the idea of an individual budget, which is now being promoted and tested by central government. It defines the idea, and describes the practical and policy…

Implementing Multi‐Disciplinary Teamwork in the New Child Welfare Policy Environment

Nick Frost, Andy Lloyd

This paper draws on a review of research by one of the authors (Frost, 2005) and an ERSC‐funded research project (Frost et al, 2005). The findings from this work are applied to…

The Emergence of Person‐Centred Planning as Evidence‐Based Practice

Helen Sanderson, Jeanette Thompson, Jackie Kilbane

Recent research (Robertson et al, 2005) has demonstrated that person‐centred planning (PCP) leads to positive changes for people. This research shows how PCP is associated with…

Integrated Team Working Part II: Making the Inter‐Agency Connections

Bob Hudson

In the first of these two articles on integrated team working (Hudson, 2006) the focus was on the nature of the front‐line integration ‐ the Sedgefield Integrated Team (SIT)…

Delivering Unique Care: Care Co‐ordination in Practice

Ruth Adam

The National Primary Care Development Team (NPDT) is spreading the Unique Care approach to case management across the country, and this article presents a case study of how Brent…