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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Sarah Carr takes a look at a new NICE Guideline on person-centred, integrated social care support for older people with multiple long-term conditions.
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Kirsten Lawson explores the benefits of working across professional and therapeutic boundaries, highlighted beautifully by the recent COINCIDE RCT of collaborative care for patients with depression comorbid with diabetes or cardiovascular disease.
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Rachel Allan appraises an observational study, which evaluates a complex behaviour service for people with challenging behaviour. The service, which used the principles of positive behaviour support, showed some short-term improvement, but this was not maintained at 12 months.
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Clarissa Giebel examines a US study on a community-based support for older people and finds that ‘the little things’ can mean a lot, particularly for prevention and quality of life.
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Tanya Moore discusses a small study on inter-professional working between social care and general practice and finds evidence of misunderstanding.
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Mike Clark explores a study on patterns of local authority care coordination for older people and thinks about implications of findings for practice.
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In this blog, Lindsey Pike examines research on multi-agency working in safeguarding children and draws out some of the practice implications of the findings.
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Robin Miller tackles a systematic review of measures to evaluate integration in health and social care and discusses some of the challenges of integration.
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