Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 9 Issue 1

Editorial

Peter Thistlethwaite

What Works in Community Care?

Janet Lewis

This article is based on a talk given to introduce a conference of this same title in Oxford in September 2000. It provides a personal, and deliberately challenging, view of the…

The Rough Road and the Smooth Road: Comparing Access to Social Care for Older People via Area Teams and GP Surgeries

Nick Le Mesurier, Stuart Cumella

This article discusses the results of a comparative evaluation of a social worker in primary care with her equivalents in an area team. Direct referral is found to be more…

Evaluation of the Implementation of the Mental Health Review in Somerset: Results after Fifteen Months of Data Collection

Pauline Gulliver, Edward Peck, David Towell

This paper presents the second set of results from the evaluation of the implementation of joint commissioning and combined provision of mental health services in Somerset…

The Public Health Agenda: Strengthening the Democratic Voice

Fiona Campbell

The Parliamentary Health Select Committee is currently holding an inquiry into public health. The Democratic Health Network (DHN) gave evidence to the inquiry, based on research…

Strategies for Living

Alison Faulkner, Vicky Nicholls

This article provides a discussion of the value of user‐led research in mental health, with particular reference to the Strategies for Living project at the Mental Health…

Strategies for Living

Jill Manthorpe

Occupational Therapy as a Seamless Pathway in North East Glasgow

Sonia Cointet, Jean Alexander, Margaret Campbell, Lorna Hunter

This is a locality case study which starts with a detailed overview of an inter‐agency process to study the feasibility of integrating occupational therapy services, and concludes…

Coughlan and After

John Dow

Eighteen months after the Coughlan judgement, health and local authorities are still awaiting revised guidance on eligibility criteria for free nursing care under the NHS. This…