Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 19 Issue 6

Comparing (and learning from) integrated care initiatives: an analytical framework

Stefano Calciolari, Stefania Ilinca

Care integration has been the hallmark of most proposed solutions to current and prospective challenges of health systems. However, it is an imprecise umbrella term encompassing…

Involving specialist clinicians in policies for integrated care

Paul Clarkson, Jane Hughes, Michele Abendstern, Caroline Sutcliffe, Sue Tucker, Ian Philp, David Challis

The purpose of this paper is to raise issues around the involvement of clinicians relevant to current policies for integrated care by reviewing a previous policy to integrate…

Understanding strategy, change and leadership in UK health and social care

Steve Willcocks

This paper seeks to explore the relevance of strategy in health and social care. In particular, it aims to look at contrasting perspectives, generally related to either planned or…

Better late than never … independent adult social work practices finally have a legal basis

Ed Mitchell

In 2010, the Department of Health announced its intention to pilot arrangements for independent adult social work practices to exercise local authorities' adult social care…

Joint strategic needs assessment: reconciling new expectations with reality

Ed Harding, Michelle Kane

This paper seeks to provide a critique on the overall readiness of joint strategic needs assessment (JSNA) to respond to the new roles and functions proposed by the Health and…

Beyond value? Measuring the costs and benefits of public participation

Walid El Ansari, Edward Andersson

The costs and benefits of patient/public involvement in health, social and political settings are important determinants of whether people and organisations participate. However…

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite