Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 16 Issue 3

editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

Towards World Class Commissioning? New Approaches to Service Delivery for People Facing Social Exclusion

Richard Kramer

Persistent and particular health and social care challenges face socially excluded groups and communities in the more deprived areas of the country. Involvement of communities in…

Individual Budgets and Personalisation: A New Model for Integration?

Melanie Henwood, Bob Hudson

The adult social care system will increasingly be characterised by ‘personalisation’. Maximising choice, control and power over the support services that people access is to be…

Gaining Independence: An Evaluation of Service Users' Accounts of the Individual Budgets Pilot

Guy Daly, Annette Roebuck, Jennifer Dean, Fiona Goff, Martin Bollard, Clare Taylor

This article presents the findings of an evaluation of the impact on service users of a local authority's individual budgets pilot. The local authority has pursued an…

Disability Discrimination Law — ‘From Derision to Acceptance to Respect’

John Dow

A recent High Court case involving restrictions on eligibility criteria has highlighted the importance of public bodies' general equality duty under section 49A of the Disability…

Professional Identity in Multi‐Disciplinary Teams: The Staff Speak

Ann Workman, Jeremy Pickard

This paper reflects on the experience of an integrated multi‐disciplinary team over three years. We argue that initial anxieties about dilution of professional identity have not…

Community Health (and Care) Partnerships in Scotland

Isobel Freem, Keith Moore

This article attempts to describe the Scottish approach to integrated care, covering historical background, policy context, progress towards implementation and current issues.