Objectives The National Health Service has been moving towards integrated care for the
best part of two decades to address the growing financial and service pressures created by …

Background: Interventions aimed at integrating care have become widespread in
healthcare; however, there is significant variability in their success. Differences in …

Results: Management of integrated care was seen to require an ability to create networks
across professions and organisations, to be comfortable with distributing responsibilities …

Purpose Given the complex nature of integrated care systems (ICSs), the geographical
spread and the large number of organisations involved in partnership delivery, the …

What matters most to people who use healthcare? What matters to their caregivers? How do
we use this information to support ongoing quality improvement in the healthcare system? In …

Discussion: Relational and citizen led approaches are critical for success, but it takes time to
build trusting relationships, influence organisational and professional cultures and cede …

Purpose A conceptual framework for collaboratively based integrated health and social care
(IHSC) integration is proposed to aid in understanding how to accomplish IHSC …

There has been increased policy discourse urging a “rebalancing” of health systems from
institutionally-based to community-based approaches. This paper offers an analysis of the …

Most leadership development activity in health and social care has been intra-organisational
or confined to a particular sector. However, there is increasing recognition of the need to …

All too often when people have complex needs spanning both health and social care good
quality services are sacrificed for sterile arguments about boundaries. When this happens …