Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 18 Issue 1

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

Joint Financing across Health and Social Care: Money Matters, but Outcomes Matter More

Charlotte Goldman

Joint financing across health and social care represents an opportunity for NHS bodies and councils to improve outcomes and value for money and to integrate services better. There…

Integrated Commissioning: New Contexts, New Dilemmas, New Solutions?

Bob Hudson

Ideas about joint commissioning between the NHS and social care have been around for a long time ‐ since at least the publication of Practical Guidance on Joint Commissioning for…

Anticipating and Capitalising on Change: The General Election and Health and Social Care Partnerships

Ray Jones

It is a longstanding commitment of government in the UK that health and social care services be brought together despite the separate legislative and organisational arrangements…

Devolution by Degrees

John Dow

This regular legal column reflects on legal issues which are relevant to health and social care policy in general, and integrated care in particular. Policy developments do not…

Integrating Care in Norfolk ‐ Progress of a National Pilot

Helen Tucker

As one of the 16 pilots in the Department of Health Integrated Care Organisation (ICO) programme, Norfolk is exploring ways of integrating primary, community and social care…

Older People's Perceptions of Assistive Technology — An Exploratory Pan‐European Study

Veronika Williams, Rachel McCrindle, Christina Victor

This paper describes a study undertaken to explore how assistive technology in the form of a wrist‐worn device is perceived by older people for whom it has been devised.

Case Management for Long‐Term Conditions: The Role of Networks in Health and Social Care Services

Jessica Abell, Jane Hughes, Siobhan Reilly, Kathryn Berzins, David Challis

Policy requires that those with complex long‐term needs be offered case management, a primary care led service dependent on local health and social care resources. This paper…