Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 25 Issue 4

Looking down the right end of the integration telescope

Robin Miller, Jon Glasby, Axel Kaehne

Implementing a collaborative mental health care model: the MHPN

Chris Gibbs, Barbara Murphy, Deepika Ratnaike, Kate Hoppe, Harry Lovelock

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and experience of the Mental Health Professionals’ Network (MHPN) in building and supporting a national interdisciplinary…

Professionals’ views on integrated care

Outi Jolanki, Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen, Timo Sinervo

Integrated care policies have been at the heart of recent health reforms in many European countries. The purpose of this paper is to study the integration from the perspective of…

Shifting the balance of care…and making the money add up

John Wilderspin

A critical commentary on policy and practice over time in English health and social care. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

A new health and social care context in Wales: Promoting resilience through a shift in perspective and different relationships

Stewart Greenwell, Daniel Antebi

The Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 and the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 provide a direction of travel for all public services in Wales and a…

Integration as a scientific paradigm

Axel Kaehne

Integration is policy, practice as well as object of systematic investigation. What we do not know is whether or not integration can be understood as a science. In his book The…

Joining up dementia: not as easy as it sounds

Jill Manthorpe, Steve Iliffe

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the different meanings of integration as expressed in dementia care practice and service organisation in England. Dementia is frequently…

The emotional labour of boundary spanning

Catherine Needham, Sharon Mastracci, Catherine Mangan

Within public services there is a widely recognised role for workers who operate across organisational and professional boundaries. Much of this literature focusses on the…