Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 29 Issue 1

Editorial

Axel Kaehne

Exploring the scope for Normalisation Process Theory to help evaluate and understand the processes involved when scaling up integrated models of care: a case study of the scaling up of the Gnosall memory service

Michael Clark, David Jolley, Susan Mary Benbow, Nicola Greaves, Ian Greaves

The scaling up of promising, innovative integration projects presents challenges to social and health care systems. Evidence that a new service provides (cost) effective care in a…

Mapping post-diagnostic dementia care in England: an e-survey

Rachael Frost, Kate Walters, Jane Wilcock, Louise Robinson, Karen Harrison Dening, Martin Knapp, Louise Allan, Greta Rait

Post-diagnostic dementia care is often fragmented in the United Kingdom, with great variation in provision. Recent policies suggest moving towards better community-based care for…

A collaborative, multi-sectoral approach to implementing a social prescribing initiative to alleviate social isolation and enhance well-being amongst older people

Emma Killbery Wilkinson, Amanda Lees, Sarah Weekes, Gillian Duncan, Geoffrey Meads, Kit Tapson

In 2019, St Johns Winchester, a CQC-registered charity, launched the Hand in Hand (HiH) Service, a social prescribing (SP) initiative to alleviate social isolation/loneliness…

Implementing an integrated acute response service: professional perceptions of intermediate care

Julie MacInnes, Sabrena Jaswal, Rasa Mikelyte, Jenny Billings

The purpose of this study is to examine the implementation, care processes and sustainability of an integrated, intermediate Acute Response Team (ART) service. The primary aims of…

An integrated care solution for the electrocardiogram monitoring

Josephine S.F. Chow, Andrew Hopkins, Hany Dimitri, Hui Tie, Rachael Williams, Rohan Rajaratnam, Sumana Gopinath, Suzana Lazarovska, Stanica Andrijevic, Upul Premawardhana, Veronica E. Gonzalez-Arce, Alan McDougall

This study has demonstrated how technology may contribute to integrated care solutions by comparing conventional ward telemetry (WT) to a wearable ECG monitor (S-Patch) to detect…

Can a case lead approach deliver the “craft and graft” of integration?

Di Bailey, Gabriella Jennifer Mutale

The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and outcomes for adults with complex needs over time, within and between two teams that delivered integrated care across…

Improving care in care homes: what can Primary Care Networks learn from the Vanguards?

Anna Coleman, Sarah Croke, Kath Checkland

We trace the evolution of a new integrated care policy in the English NHS (enhanced health in care homes, EHCH) from pilot model to wider roll out, over a 4-year period, into the…