Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 17 Issue 4

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

Commissioning Dementia Care: Implementing the National Dementia Strategy

Steve Iliffe, Jane Wilcock

The National Dementia Strategy is a challenge to commissioners of health and local government services to knit a thick pullover out of thin wool. The thick pullover is necessary…

Continuing Health Care — The Story so Far…

John Dow

This is the first in a series of articles looking at continuing health care (CHC). This article will look at the historical background and key legal judgments which have…

Self‐Directed Support in Health: Developing the Concepts

Rita Brewis

This article outlines the work being taken forward by In Control, an independent social enterprise and charity, with a range of innovative PCTs and local authorities, to explore…

The Emergence of the Independent Support Broker Role

Steve Dowson, Rob Greig

A key element in the personalisation of health and social care is the upfront allocation of a budget to disabled and older people which they can use to obtain the supports they…

Personalisation: Consumer Power or Social Co‐Production

Bob Sang

The policies of personalisation and choice have reawakened the underlying policy debates about the relationship between the ideologies of service reform and the implementation of…

Personalisation and Joint Working: OLM Adult Social Services Survey

Jim Kennedy

Earlier this year, OLM Group surveyed senior social services staff in councils in England and Wales to learn more about progress towards personalisation and more effective joint…