Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 30 Issue 1

Editorial

Axel Kaehne

Homelessness and integrated care: an application of integrated care knowledge to understanding services for wicked issues

Michael Clark, Michelle Cornes, Martin Whiteford, Robert Aldridge, Elizabeth Biswell, Richard Byng, Graham Foster, James Sebastian Fuller, Andrew Hayward, Nigel Hewett, Alan Kilminster, Jill Manthorpe, Joanne Neale, Michela Tinelli

People experiencing homelessness often have complex needs requiring a range of support. These may include health problems (physical illness, mental health and/or substance misuse…

The recruitment, retention and development of an integrated urgent care telephone triage workforce: a small-scale study

Laura Snell, Tom Grimwood

NHS 111 is a non-emergency telephone triage service that provides immediate access to urgent care 24 h a day. This study explored the recruitment, retention and development of one…

The shift to collaborative working and integration in the English NHS: developing shared leadership in primary care networks

Steve Willcocks, Tony Conway

The purpose of this paper is to explore leadership in the context of the policy shift to collaborative working and integration currently being pursued in the UK NHS. As ways of…

Integrated care effectiveness for adults with co-occurring disorders

Angela Mooss, Joyce Myatt, Jennifer Goldman, Joey-Ann Alexander

This study examined effectiveness of an integrated care program on emergency department visits within a longitudinal sample of patients with both primary care and behavioral…

The comprehensive framework for integrated healthcare implementation: a realist evaluation of positive parenting in rural primary care in the US

Deborah J. Moon, Adrian J. Ballard

This study aimed to develop a comprehensive framework that encompasses contextual determinants of integrated care implementation. The initial framework was developed based on…

Preconditions to implementation of an integrated care process programme

Angela Bångsbo, Anna Dunér, Synneve Dahlin Ivanoff, Eva Lidén

The purpose of this study was to investigate the preconditions of a full-scale implementation of an integrated care process programme for frail older people from the staff's…

Leadership challenge: lateral systems integration for healthcare

Livia Martin

Government imperatives that drive integrated care are challenging corporate executive leadership. Conspicuous by its absence in both government's imperatives and the literature…

Bumpy road: implementing integrated psychiatric and somatic care in joint-specialty emergency departments: a mixed-method study using Normalization Process Theory

Pia Vedel Ankersen, Rikke Grynderup Steffensen, Emely Ek Blæhr, Kirsten Beedholm

Life expectancy is 15–20 years shorter for individuals with than for people without mental illness. Assuming that undiagnosed and undertreated somatic conditions are significant…

Collaboration among healthcare professionals at the public hospitals in Gaza: a quantitative study

Iyad Ibrahim Shaqura, Radwan Baroud, Ali Akbari Sari

This study aimed at assessing the current interprofessional collaboration (IPC) among healthcare professionals at the public hospitals in the Gaza Strip in 2016 through measuring…