Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 15 Issue 6

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

Putting the Evidence into Performance Measurement

Alison Petch

Community Matrons — A Conduit for Integrated Working?

Helen Lyndon

This article demonstrates how the role of the community matron has developed in Cornwall over the past three years, and how this role can be understood as the lynchpin of an…

Creating Integrated Care: Evaluation and Management of Local Care in Sweden

Bengt Ahgren

It seems impossible to create a comprehensive evaluation model which fully takes into account the multi‐dimensional context of integrated health and social care. Clinical…

The Use of Collaboration to Produce More Effective Serious Incident Inquiry Reports

Sherrie Hitchen

A collaborative approach, involving family members, was taken to writing an inquiry report following the death of a patient with serious mental illness. This paper sets out the…

The Challenge of Building the Knowledge Base in Changing Contexts of Care

James Blewett

This article examines the role of research dissemination in the development of the knowledge base that underpins the integration of care. It does so from the perspective of the…

Black and Minority Ethnic People and Mental Health in Britain: An Holistic Approach

Parveen Marrington‐Mir, Annette Rimmer

This paper challenges the medically dominated mental health orthodoxy in Britain. It advocates an integrated community development approach underpinned by anti‐racist, empowering…

Commentary

Philomena Harrison

Are Caring Professions Restricting Employment of Disabled People?

Chih Sin, Janice Fong

The Disability Rights Commission's Formal Investigation into the impact of professional regulation on disabled people's access to nursing, social work and teaching professions…