Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 8 Issue 6

What works in community care?

Peter Thistlethwaite

(1) The NHS Plan: What Does it Mean for Community Care?

Janice Robinson, Penny Banks, Angela Greatley, Jan Stevenson

The NHS Plan promises improvements in the National Health Service that could benefit many people with long‐term illness or disability. Some longstanding problems concerning the…

(2) The NHS Plan: Maintaining the Human Touch

Jon Glasby

Although the NHS Plan stopped short of forced mergers of local authority social services departments with NHS bodies, it may nevertheless lead to a form of amalgamation by…

(3) The NHS Plan: Long‐term Care: Continuing Challenges at the Health/Social Care Boundary

Chris Vellenoweth

The NHS Plan incorporates the long‐awaited response of the Government to the report of the Royal Commission on the Costs of Long‐Term Care. This article argues that the risk of…

Service Users and Community Care: New Roles, New Knowledges, New Forms of Involvement?

Peter Beresford

This article considers the key role that service users' perspectives and knowledges now play in the development of community care. It explores their differences from the political…

Multidisciplinary Working and the New NHS: More Messages from Northern Ireland

Suzanne Withington, Henri Giller

The authors suggest that their recently developed curriculum guidance on multidisciplinary working for DipSW students in Northern Ireland raises some key issues of relevance to…

Making Connections: Learning Disability Services and Primary Care Groups/Trusts

Alison Giraud‐Saunders

This paper affirms the importance of making connections between learning disability services and primary care groups/trusts, while acknowledging the challenges. Ideas for local…

What is Intermediate Care? Looking at Needs

Pam Enderby, Jan Stevenson

Managing operational change using a whole‐systems approach will be the key to re‐engineering services, including intermediate care and rehabilitation for older people. This…

Getting Started: Early Research Findings on a Jointly Managed Community‐Based Rehabilitation Service in Bristol

Drew Thomas, Robin Means

This is an outline of findings from research aimed at identifying the emerging issues around the formation of a jointly managed and staffed community rehabilitation service in…