Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 20 Issue 3

Accountable care – aligning incentives with outcomes

Alasdair Liddell, David Welbourn

The paper seeks to move the integrated care debate forward by exploring what contributes to improved quality and efficiency, and to consider the practical consequences of…

Unintended consequences? The impact of NHS reforms upon Torbay Care Trust

Anthony Farnsworth

Torbay Care Trust has been widely promoted as an effective model of integrated health and social care, and yet the impact of reforms introduced by the previous and current…

Benchmarking integrated care for people with long‐term neurological conditions

Sylvia Bernard, Fiona Aspinal, Kate Gridley, Gillian Parker

This paper aims to report results from a national survey of primary care trusts (PCTs) that explored the strategic, organisational and practice context of services for people with…

The role of leadership in learning and knowledge for integration

Paul Williams

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role and approach to leadership for learning and knowledge management within integrated care arenas.

New conversations with new players?: The relationship between primary care and social care in an era of clinical commissioning

Alan Lotinga, Jon Glasby

Against the backdrop of the significant changes taking place in health and social care, a key relationship is likely to be between social care and general practice. This paper…

The user voice: older people's experiences of reablement and rehabilitation

Tessa Trappes‐Lomax, Annie Hawton

This paper aims to report verbatim the voices of older people describing their experiences of rehabilitation services in community hospitals and local authority short‐term…

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite