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Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Total Place pilot: services and support for older people
- Author:
- BRACEY Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 14(2), June 2010, pp.31-37.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
With public services now having to do more with less, it is widely understood that public spending will be under significant pressure to cope with the budget deficit. This article describes how, since August 2009, the Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole region has been one of 13 areas in England working on a pilot project called Total Place. This government-funded initiative is focused on understanding how services can be improved and provided at less cost by bringing together all public sector partners in an area around a specific theme. The Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole pilot was the only one that focused exclusively on older people. Examining secondary care services and community services and looks at the relationship between universal services and social capital, this paper details how the project worked and some of the findings to date.