Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 26 Issue 3

Keeping the faith in integration and primary care

Robin Miller, Jacqueline Cumming, Richard Q. Lewis

Note from the new Editor-in-chief

Axel Kaehne

Transforming primary care: scoping review of research and practice

Robin Miller, Catherine Weir, Steve Gulati

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on research evidence and practice experience of transforming primary care to a more integrated and holistic model.

Care transition types across acute, sub-acute and primary care: Case studies of older people with complex conditions and their carers

Desley Harvey, Michele Foster, Rachel Quigley, Edward Strivens

The purpose of the paper is to examine the care transitions of older people who transfer between home, acute and sub-acute care to determine if there were common transition types…

Effectiveness of joint specialist case conferences for building general practice capacity to enhance diabetes care: A pilot study in Western Sydney, Australia

Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Sian Bramwell, Rajini Jayaballa, Ramy Bishay, Ian Corless, Sumathy Ravi, Linda Soars, Xiaoqi Feng, Thomas Astell-Burt, Manimegalai Manoharan, Mark McLean, Glen Maberly

Type 2 diabetes mellitus has become a major concern of Australian healthcare providers. From rates of barely more than 1 percent in the mid-90s, diabetes is now the leading cause…

Case study of home care for isolated and frail elderly patients by general practice nurses: A controlled 17-month study, to May 2016

Sarah Longstaff, Jeni Rees, Elizabeth Good, Elizabeth Kirby

In a novel approach, two part-time “Link Nurses” within an NE Hampshire practice of 16,500 patients were funded by a local charity, to assess and manage unmet needs of isolated…

The primary care home: a new vehicle for the delivery of population health in England

Richard Q. Lewis, Nav Chana

The purpose of this paper is to consider how the evolving concept of the “primary care home” (PCH) that is developing in England might be an effective vehicle for the delivery of…

Delivering primary health care as envisioned: A model of health and well-being guiding community-governed primary care organizations

Jennifer Rayner, Laura Muldoon, Imaan Bayoumi, Dale McMurchy, Kate Mulligan, Wangari Tharao

For over 40 years, Canadian and international bodies have endorsed comprehensive primary health care (PHC), yet very little work has been done to describe how services and…

The health care home in New Zealand: rolling out a new model of primary health care

Jacqueline Cumming, Phoebe Dunn, Lesley Middleton, Claire O’Loughlin

The purpose of this paper is to report on the origins, development and early impacts of a Health Care Home (HCH) model of care being rolled out around New Zealand (NZ).