Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 27 Issue 3

The challenge of evaluating care integration programmes

Hubertus Johannes Maria Vrijhoef, Axel Kaehne

Does the integration of response services lead to meaningful change in healthcare activity? A case study evaluation

Sebastian Hinde, Jo Setters, Laura Bojke, Nick Hex, Gerry Richardson

The aim of the NHS England Vanguards of new care models was to improve healthcare provision and integration through the coordination of services, seeking to deliver the Five Year…

Realism and rhetoric in the evaluation of a new care model

Tom Grimwood

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the methodological challenges to evaluating one of the 50 vanguard sites of the new care model (NCM) programme for integrated care in…

A scaling-up strategy supporting the expansion of integrated care: a study protocol

Liset Grooten, Cristina-Adriana Alexandru, Tamara Alhambra-Borrás, Stuart Anderson, Francesca Avolio, Elisa Valia Cotanda, Zdenek Gütter, Donna Henderson, Ann-Charlotte Kassberg, Esteban de Manuel Keenoy, Marc Lange, Lisa Lundgren, Andrea Pavlickova, Jon Txarramendieta Suarez, Diane Whitehouse, Ane Fullaondo Zabala, Joseba Igor Zabala Rementeria, Hubertus Johannes Maria Vrijhoef

To ensure that more people will benefit from integrated care initiatives, scaling-up of successful initiatives is the way forward. However, new challenges present themselves as…

The contribution of implementation science to improving the design and evaluation of integrated care programmes for older people with frailty

Euan Sadler, Jane Sandall, Nick Sevdalis, Dan Wilson

The purpose of this paper is to discuss three potential contributions from implementation science that can help clinicians and researchers to design and evaluate more effective…

From summative to developmental: Incorporating design-thinking into evaluations of complex interventions

Carolyn Steele Gray, James Shaw

Models of integrated care are prime examples of complex interventions, incorporating multiple interacting components that work through varying mechanisms to impact numerous…

Big Data and what it means for evaluating integrated care programmes

Axel Kaehne

Big Data is likely to have significant implications for the way in which services are planned, organised or delivered as well as the way in which we evaluate them. The increase in…