Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 30 Issue 5

Link workers, activities and target groups in social prescribing: a literature review

Denis Rothe, Raffael Heiss

Social prescribing is a model of integrated care, in which primary healthcare staff can link patients to the social care sector. However, social prescribing can occur in…

What are the priorities for the future development of integrated care? A scoping review

Corey Burke, John Broughan, Geoff McCombe, Ronan Fawsitt, Áine Carroll, Walter Cullen

“Integrated care” (IC) is an approach to health and social care delivery that aims to prevent problems arising from fragmented care systems. The collective content of the IC…

Coordination of paediatric oncology care: an explorative Swedish case study

Christian Gadolin, Erik Eriksson, Patrik Alexandersson

The aim of this paper is to empirically describe and analyze factors deemed to be relevant for the successful provision of coordinated paediatric oncology care by physicians and…

Measuring integrated care at the interface between primary care and secondary care: a scoping review

Aimee O'Farrell, Geoff McCombe, John Broughan, Áine Carroll, Mary Casey, Ronan Fawsitt, Walter Cullen

In many healthcare systems, health policy has committed to delivering an integrated model of care to address the increasing burden of disease. The interface between primary and…

The impact of structural changes to community nursing services on the rate of emergency hospital use of older people: a longitudinal ecological study of based on 140 primary care trusts in England

Steven Wyatt, Robin Miller, Peter Spilsbury, Mohammed Amin Mohammed

In 2011, community nursing services were reorganised in England in response to a national policy initiative, but little is known about the impact of these changes. A total of…

Achieving sustainable governance of horizontal integration of care services: progress and democratic accountability of strategic coordination bodies for older people

Stefan Szücs, Inger Kjellberg

The purpose is to analyse the relationship between democratic accountability and how sustainable governance is achieved by horizontally integrating care services for older people…

Beyond the workforce training pipeline: embracing the meandering stream of “whole of life” and career to strengthen the retention of health professionals rurally

Richard Colbran, Robyn Ramsden, Michael Edwards, Emer O'Callaghan, Dave Karlson

While Australia has continued to invest in polices and strategies aimed at improving rural health service provision, many communities still confront a disproportionate share of…

Making a difference: workforce skills and capacity for integrated care

Joy Akehurst, Paul Stronge, Karen Giles, Jonathon Ling

The aim of this action research was to explore, from a workforce and a patient/carer perspective, the skills and the capacity required to deliver integrated care and to inform…

Integration, population commissioning and prison health and well-being – an exploration of benefits and challenges through the study of telemedicine

Chantal Edge, Nikki Luffingham, Georgia Black, Julie George

This paper seeks to understand relationships between prison healthcare and integrated care systems (ICS), including how these affect the delivery of new healthcare interventions…

A delicate balance: how physicians manage change towards collaborative care within their institutions

Debbie Vermond, Esther de Groot, Niek de Wit, Dorien Zwart

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020–2022, the immutable and fragmented character of our healthcare system changed. Healthcare professionals and their institutional leads…