Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 17 Issue 5

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

Organisational Integration in Health and Social Care: Some Reflections on the Northern Ireland Experience

Deirdre Heenan, Derek Birrell

Unlike the rest of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland has had a system of integrated health and social care since the early 1970s. Following devolution, the reconfiguration of…

Environment, Design and Rehabilitation: Introduction to a New JIC Series

Gail Mountain

Mental Health in Later Life: Better Outcomes through Wise Commissioning

Jill Manthorpe

Mental health problems in later life are common and damaging experiences for individuals, their families and those who support them. Some become almost the defining feature of the…

Shaping the Future of Care Together

Alison Petch

Personalising Health — The West Sussex Story

Sara Weech

This article describes the journey that West Sussex PCT and County Council have set out on to test and experiment how personalisation in health can improve patient outcomes and…

Community Care and the Single Outcome Agreement in Scotland: A Driver or Barrier to Better Outcomes?

Kirsten Gooday, Ailsa Stewart

This article will examine the potential gap between the rhetoric of reducing bureaucracy to achieve better outcomes for individuals, and the reality for community care in the…

Developing and Implementing Research as a Lever for Integration: The Impact of Service Context

Dominic Jarrett, Tommy Stevenson, Guro Huby, Ailsa Stewart

Integration between health and local authority services has been informed more by policy than by evidence. The gap which often exists between the development of an evidence base…