Background Healthcare systems around the world have been responding to the demand for
better integrated models of service delivery. However, there is a need for further clarity …

Policy Points Integrated care is best understood as an emergent set of practices intrinsically
shaped by contextual factors, and not as a single intervention to achieve predetermined …

Health and care services have failed to keep up with this dramatic demographic shift. The
NHS has designed hospital medical specialties around single organ diseases. Primary care …

Objectives Integrated funds for health and social care are one possible way of improving
care for people with complex care requirements. If integrated funds facilitate coordinated …

Background The NHS has been challenged to adopt new integrated models of service
delivery that are tailored to local populations. Evidence from the international literature is …

Integrated care is an aim and a method for organising health and care services, particularly
for older people and those with chronic conditions. Policy expects that integrated care …

Social prescribing, also known as “community referral”, is a means of referring individuals
living in the community to existing local non-clinical health, welfare, and social support …

Home‐care re‐ablement or 'restorative'services are a cornerstone of preventive service
initiatives in many countries. Many English local authorities are transforming their former in …

In England, policy piloting has become firmly established in almost all areas of public policy
and is seen as good practice in establishing 'what works'. However, equating piloting with …

This paper traces developments in English home care services over two decades from the
early 1990s. This longer‐term perspective is used to show how factors shaping the broader …