Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 23 Issue 2

New conversations between old players? The relationship between general practice and social care

Jon Glasby, Robin Miller

With the advent of Clinical Commissioning Groups, the English health system has abolished more managerially led Primary Care Trusts and given greater responsibilities to groups of…

Going round in circles? Joint working between primary health and social care

Anna Coleman, Caroline Glendinning

The purpose of this paper is to examine research evidence on collaboration between primary and adult social care in strategic, rather than operational, activities at two different…

Knowing me, knowing you: Inter-professional working between general practice and social care

Catherine Mangan, Robin Miller, Carol Ward

The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings of the first stage of a project seeking to improve interprofessional working between general practice and adult social care…

Practice-integrated care teams – learning for a better future

Angela Beacon

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of one element of the integrated work which has taken place in Central Manchester, the development of multi-disciplinary…

Context matters: general practice and social work – the Birmingham story

Alan Lotinga

– The purpose of this paper is to describe the approach adopted to building relationships between health and social care in Birmingham.

Social work: a “forgotten” piece of the integration jigsaw?

Annie Hudson

The article seeks to analyse the potential contribution of social work to integration debates. Social work has tended to be seen as marginal to these discussions despite the…

General practice and adult social care: friends or foe?

Jon Glasby, Robin Miller, Sue White