Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 18 Issue 6
Practical evidence for service improvement
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The State of Telehealth and Telecare in the UK: Prospects for Integrated Care
Nick GoodwinTelehealth and telecare innovations have the potential to improve quality of life, reduce unnecessary hospital and care home admissions, and support care integration by providing…
Designing Dementia‐Friendly Neighbourhoods: Helping People with Dementia to Get Out and About
Lynne Mitchell, Elizabeth BurtonThis paper summarises research funded by the EPSRC EQUAL programme from 2000 to 2003 to examine how neighbourhoods could be made dementia‐friendly. Design for dementia generally…
Health and Social Care of Older People: Could Policy Generalise Good Practice?
Colin CurrieCurrent provision of health and social care for older people reflects a dysfunctional historic legacy of separatism, one with increasingly unacceptable consequences for the…
Joint Financing in the New NHS: Thinking to the Future
Charlotte Goldman, Jane CarrierThis article follows an earlier article in this journal (Goldman, 2010), examines the emerging government policy on integration and considers some of the implications for joint…
A ‘Liberated’ NHS: Intentions, Impact and Implications for Local Government
Ray JonesThe article follows up a prospective article published just before the Election with a review of the Coalition's vision for health and social care. It concludes that, despite…
A Liberated NHS ‐ But will it Lead Health and Social Care Together or Force them Apart?
Robin Miller, Jon Glasby, Brian Cox, Allison TrimbleThis article is based on a leadership seminar held by the National Skills Academy (Social Care) in July 2010 at which delegates representing local authorities, the independent…
Horizontal and Vertical Integration in the UK: Lessons from History
Benedict Rumbold, Sara ShawPolicy makers, practitioners and researchers have increasingly emphasised the need for both vertical and horizontal ‘integration’ and ‘integrated care’. This is not new; since the…
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- Professor Axel Kaehne