Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 31 Issue 5

Priorities in integrating primary and secondary care: a multimethod study of GPs

Shane Dunlea, Geoff McCombe, John Broughan, Áine Carroll, Ronan Fawsitt, Joe Gallagher, Kyle Melin, Walter Cullen

Throughout the world, healthcare policy has committed to delivering integrated models of care. The interface between primary–secondary care has been identified as a particularly…

Knowledge management in a regional integrated health and social care system

Tuomas Hujala, Harri Laihonen

This article analyses a major healthcare and social welfare reform establishing new regional and integrated wellbeing services counties in Finland. The authors approach the reform…

Integrated care systems and equity: prospects and plans

Maria Goddard

Policies on integrated care have waxed and waned over time in the English health and care sectors, culminating in the creation of 42 integrated care systems (ICSs) which were…

How can we define social care and what are the levels of true integration in integrated care? A narrative review

Gabriela Uribe, Ferdinand Mukumbang, Corey Moore, Tabitha Jones, Susan Woolfenden, Katarina Ostojic, Paul Haber, John Eastwood, James Gillespie, Carmen Huckel Schneider

Integrated health and social care initiatives are increasing and health and social care systems are aiming to improve health and social outcomes in disadvantaged groups. There is…

Looking for integrated elderly care in practice

Anna-Mari Juutinen

The goal of integrated, multidisciplinary and person-centered care is on the welfare policy agenda in many countries, but how about integrated service delivery in action? This…

Exploring clinicians’ experiences of how efficient virtual elective knee clinics are compared to traditional face-to-face clinics

Ronan Henry

Efficient delivery of integrated healthcare requires solid alliances and collaboration with stakeholders on a regular basis. Due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), it has…

Searching for alternative health and social care integration measurement tools – a rapid review of the existing systematic models

Samuli Tikkanen, Pekka Räsänen, Timo Sinervo, Ilmo Keskimäki, Merja Sahlström, Tiina Pesonen, Hanna Tiirinki

Health care integration is crucial in improving service equality and patient outcomes. However, measuring integration between the health and social care sectors remains…

Uncovering misalignments in the health- and elderly care system

Jens Hemphälä, Magnus Eneberg

The increasing size of the elderly population is emerging as a primary catalyst for the escalation of healthcare expenditure, and a sense of urgency is manifest. However, the…

Substituting professional with informal care? A response to “how to handle gerontocracy”

Barbara Gösenbauer

The comment addresses the idea of substituting professional elder care with informal care provided by early retirees to save economic costs.