Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 20 Issue 1

Integration and coordination in healthcare: an operations management view

Paul Lillrank

The purpose of this paper is to present a definition of integration and coordination in health service production, and to derive basic design rules.

An integrated approach to addressing the needs of people with hearing loss in Hartlepool

Tracey Sharp

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the level of hearing loss in the population and describe the joint health and social care response in Hartlepool to the needs of this…

The needs of carers who push wheelchairs

Jessie Roberts, Hannah Young, Ken Andrew, Anne McAlpine, James Hogg

The purpose of this paper is to establish the outcome of wheelchair prescription procedures for carers supporting a wheelchair user with special reference to their health and…

Managing suspected misuse of direct payments: messages for practice from the High Court

Ed Mitchell

The purpose of this paper is to assess the practical implications of a recent High Court ruling about the legality of a council's response to concerns that direct payments were…

Relationships, learning and team working in UK services for children

Fiona Collins, Janet McCray

This paper seeks to report on education, health, and social care practitioners' experiences of working across traditional boundaries and establishing new relationships in the…

Self‐directed support and disabled young people in transition (part 1)

Fraser Mitchell

This paper aims to summarise the literature on self‐directed support (SDS) in transitions for disabled children and young people moving from children's to adult services.

Working together – learning through sharing

Charlotte McEvoy, Gerry Nosowska

This paper aims to examine the barriers and enablers to working together in social care, focusing on the experiences of carers and practitioners.

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite