Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 8 Issue 2

Practical evidence for service improvement

Subjects:

Table of contents

A Matter of Evidence

Rhiannon Hodson, Steve Pitt

Research in the personal social services has historically been something of a side‐show, but various developments are combining to bring it centrestage. Unless these are managed…

Community Care and the Law

John Dow

This article focuses on the legal issues arising from the Health Act 1999 and the Local Government Act 1999 (both in force from 1 April 2000), particularly in relation to the…

New Connections Between Public Health and Social Services

Janice Robinson, Siân Griffiths

New public health policies present social services with new opportunities and challenges. A shared public health and social care agenda is emerging around health improvement…

Promoting Independence in Brighton and Hove

Peter Dale, Philip Letchfield

This ‘case study’ demonstrates how one local authority approached the development of preventative services in response to the Department of Health's Promoting Independence…

Upsetting the Apple Cart Whilst Pulling it along the Road: Implementing the National Service Framework for Mental Health

Edward Peck, Bob Grove, Valerie Howell

This paper argues that the traditional approach to translating national policy into local practice, based as it is on a metaphor of organisations as machines, will not lead to…

Cover of Journal of Integrated Care

ISSN:

1476-9018

Online date, start – end:

1996

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Professor Axel Kaehne