Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 16 Issue 4

editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

Not Throwing out the Partnership Agenda with the Personalisation Bathwater

Helen Dickinson, Jon Glasby

The personalisation agenda currently appears as a key strand of the Government's approach to health and social care services. On the face of it this offers an exciting new future…

Assessing the Impact of Integrated Delivery Systems: Practical Advice from Three Experiments Conducted in Quebec

Gina Bravo, Michel Raîche, Marie‐France Dubois, Réjean Hébert

Interest has grown in integrated care models as means of responding better to the needs of frail older adults. In order to provide appropriate input for health policy reforms, the…

What does the Human Rights Act add?

John Dow

Private care homes will become directly subject to the Human Rights Act, under new provisions in the Health and Social Care Bill. What difference will this make in practice?

Putting it into Practice: Will the New Mental Health Act Slow Down or Accelerate Integrated Working?

Joan Rapaport, Jill Manthorpe

The modernisation of mental health legislation took time in England and Wales, and resulted in an amendment to the law through the Mental Health Act 2007. The changes under way…

Eight Laws for Evidence‐Informed Practice in Integrated Working (with apologies to Walter Leutz)

Alison Petch

The Effectiveness of Home Care Reablement — Developing the Evidence Base

Caroline Glendinning, Elizabeth Newbronner

Adult social care services are increasingly establishing reablement services as part of their range of home care provision, sometimes alone, sometimes jointly with NHS partners…

What Comes Around Goes Around: On the Language and Practice of ‘Integration’ in Health and Social Care in Scotland

Kate Bell, Tony Kinder, Guro Huby

Rhetoric and reality lead separate lives when it comes to integrating health and social services in Scotland, and it is making planning and implementation difficult for…