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Integrated care for drug users: digest of tools used in the assessment process and core data sets
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Effective Interventions Unit
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 109p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This document aims to provide information and support for practitioners in a range of tools as a part of the assessment process and the care planning of people with drug problems. This document contains definitions and principles of the assessment process; profiles of 40 tools used as part of the assessment process; and definitions of core data sets.
Integrated care pathway guide 1: definitions and concepts
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Effective Interventions Unit
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This guide examines when and how Integrated Care Pathways (ICPs) can be used to provide better care for people with drug problems. The guide briefly outlines the definitions, purposes and principles of ICPs and provides initial guidance in getting started.
Preparing older people's strategies: linking housing to health, social care and other local strategies
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, HOUSING CORPORATION
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 88p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document provides guidance on the preparation of housing strategies that link housing to health, social care, and other local strategies. The guidance follows a whole systems approach which acknowledges that housing services are one of a number of other services that together make up the whole system that affects older citizens. All local authorities are required to have an older people’s housing strategy. This document provides a framework for producing a strategy using a sample template comprising the following sections: an executive summary; an introduction to the strategy, setting the local context; identifying the housing ingredients, needs and demand; how the current housing and service systems work; planning for the future; proposals and recommendations; and taking the strategy forward. This document is aimed at those responsible for planning and delivering the housing function, but may also have a wider audience in health, social care, regeneration and planning.
Effective care pathways guide 3: implementing integrated care pathways
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Effective Interventions Unit
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This is the third in a series of guides on developing and implementing Integrated Care Pathways (ICPs). This guide provides practical advice on how to maximise the impact of the ICP prior to implementation.
Integrated top to bottom
- Authors:
- HUDSON Bob, GILES Shane, CRAWFORD Alix
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.12.03, 2003, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
For agencies to work together in an effective manner it is important that the rules governing them, and the frameworks in which decisions are made, reflect the integration that is taking place on the front line. Looks at the concept of shared and joint governance and the dilemmas it brings. Also looks briefly at the Integrated Care Network.
A linked-up approach
- Author:
- HOLMSTROM Radhika
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 34, 23.4.03, 2003, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
The 'Serving Children Well' initiative is looking at ways to develop new models for integrated services. This article looks at some innovative projects to improve children's services from six pilot authorities funded by the Department of Health's social care leadership development programme, five of these are also 'Serving Children Well' pathfinders.
Moving towards integrated working in health and social care in Scotland: from maze to matrix
- Authors:
- STEWART Alisa, PETCH Alison, CURTICE Lisa
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 17(4), November 2003, pp.335-350.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The development of integrated working across health and social care has featured strongly in recent policy directives in both England and Scotland. This is part of a wider agenda of partnership and collaboration, with a range of options from the creation of unified structures as in the care trusts in England to localised arrangements for joint working between individual professionals. This article presents a detailed matrix of drivers and barriers to integrated working which has been developed through a number of case studies of community care practice pursued as part of work undertaken for the Joint Future Group of the Scottish Executive. Drivers and barriers in three key areas are highlighted: national policy frameworks, the local planning context, and operational factors. It is anticipated that the matrix should provide a useful framework for the detailed scrutiny and operationalisation of integrated working.
Critical themes of intersystem collaboration: moving from a “can we” to a “how can we” approach to service delivery with children and families
- Authors:
- RYAN Scott D., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Social Work, 4(1), 2003, pp.39-59.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Human service agencies are increasingly encouraged to collaborate to support a more comprehensive, integrated, and responsive service delivery model for vulnerable children and their families. This paper describes specific facilitators and barriers emerging from the thematic analysis of interviews conducted over a two-year period with staff in counties that implemented a statewide inter-system collaboration project. The following facilitators were observed: accessible and available resources, flexible funding structures, organizational structures that encouraged partnerships and teams, participants open and committed to working together, and management supportive of front line efforts. Factors that hindered the collaboration effort included unavailable or inaccessible resources, unclear administrative guidelines and corresponding difficulty in defining the target population, philosophical differences between participants, and competing demands on time and funds. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Integrated working: a national initiative to bridge the gap between research and practice
- Author:
- CRAWFORD Alix
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 11(5), October 2003, pp.46-48.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes the Integrated Care Network (INC), a government sponsored initiative to promote integrated working in health and local authority services for adults and children. Outlines the policy context for the initiative, it's background, what it does and how local organisations can get involved. It particularly emphasises the need to bridge the gap between research and practice.
Can complexity theory provide better understanding of integrated care?
- Author:
- KERNICK David
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 11(5), October 2003, pp.22-29.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The patterns of health and social care provision in the community have always been complex. The Government's current call to integrate systems of care can be seen as a search for greater simplicity and predictability, but people in these systems know that any new networks will be equally complex. This article argues that our organisations and systems should no longer be viewed and managed as 'machines' with inherent rationality, and suggests that the new intellectual discipline of complexity theory offers a more relevant model with which to view the real world where we operate under the constraints of limited time, knowledge and processing power. The author is a general practitioner with an interest in applying complexity insights to health care organisation.