Integrated care leads to improved patient experience, because it means that all teams involved in the treatment of a patient work seamlessly together. To achieve this, secondary, community, and primary care services need to communicated and work effectively with social care, local authorities, and the voluntary sector. Integration may vary at different levels, and can be vertical or horizontal, depending on these levels.
Louise Arsenault provides a fascinating overview on the challenges and complexities of sharing mental health data in the UK.
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There is increasing interest in co-production in public services and in social care. This blog reports on a PhD study of timebanks which are now seen as an example of co-production but have a long history in being promising indications of mutual aid and reciprocal support between members of local communities. Social care interest groups [read the full story…]
Kirsten Lawson summarises the UPBEAT-UK programme of research into the relationship between coronary heart disease and depression and anxiety in primary care patients.
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Jill Manthorpe considers the findings of interviews with mental health social workers about their experiences of secondment to integrated care services.
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Alison Turner summarises a new learning report from the Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care (SLIC) programme, which aimed to overcome barriers to health and care integration. The report offers actionable insights that are informed by empirical evidence and experiential learning.
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Kirsten Lawson takes us through the key messages from the recent King’s Fund report on bringing together physical and mental health.
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Alison Turner presents a realist synthesis, which aims to understand how demand management interventions work in different settings.
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Alison Turner presents a new report from the NHS Confederation called ‘Growing old together: sharing new ways to support older people’, which has been produced by the independent Commission on Improving Urgent Care for Older People.
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Alison Turner comments on a new report from the King’s Fund, which shares analysis on how health and care systems might develop joint approaches to planning.
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This is a critique of a report from the Health Foundation looking at the coordinating services and targeting populations rather than acute health goals.
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