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Buying Independence: using direct payments to integrate health and social services
- Authors:
- GLENDINNING Caroline, et al
- Publisher:
- National Primary Care Research and Development Centre
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Shows how disabled people do not make clear distinctions between 'health' and 'social' care. Through direct payments, they are able to control and integrate into their daily routines a wide range of health-related activities, such as physiotherapy and nursing tasks, in ways which offer increased independence and better quality of life, compared with conventional health services. Is extending direct payments to older people and disabled children a shift in the boundary between 'health' and 'social' services? This book explores how direct payments can improve further the integration of services from the perspectives of the users and providers involved.
Primary care and social services: developing new partnerships for older people
- Authors:
- RUMMERY Kirstein, GLENDINNING Caroline
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe Medical Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 122p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon
Guide to the new initiatives in encouraging partnerships between health and social care, particularly in services for older people. Part one looks at: the problem of the health and social care divide; the new emphasis on partnerships in policy and practice; users and patients experiences of the health and social care divide; and implementing partnerships between NHS and local authority services. Part two examines joint commissioning and deals with: models of joint commissioning; a quasi single commissioning agency; a model for joint commissioning of specific services; integrated health and social care teams; a model for joint commissioning of specific services; integrated health and social care teams; and primary care groups and trusts and the potential for joint commissioning with social services partners. Part three looks at frontline collaboration between primary care and social services staff and includes sections on: community care for older people; and co-location/attachment schemes within a primary care setting. Section four is on evaluating front line collaboration projects. Section five looks at new possibilities in working in partnership for older people.