Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 8 Issue 1

Editorial

The National Service Framework for Mental Health

This article describes and reflects on the standards set out in the new National Service Framework for Mental Health, as they relate to policy development in mental health and…

Social Services and Primary Care Groups: Delivering on Partnership

This article summarises the results of a postal survey of PCG chief executives, social services PCG board members and directors of social services and highlights the need to…

Performance for the People or Virtual Reality? Social Services and Modernising Local Government

National policy's inadequate evidential base potentially undermines the modernising social services agenda. Energy may be diverted from the production of welfare and real…

Restructuring Community Care: Risk, Decision‐Making and Control

This article takes a fresh look at the concept of risk in the light of the Government's plans to modernise health and social care.

Transferring Local Authority Residential Homes to the Independent Sector: The Worcestershire Experience

‘What is to be done with our residential homes?’ The article examines the approach taken by one authority to modernising run‐down homes on a fast track, while doing justice to the…

Supporting People: What is it and What Needs to Happen?

April 2000 sees the beginning of a radical shake‐up of the way housing and support is funded. It will involve the transfer of about £800m to local authorities, which will assume…

Changing the Culture: A Differentiated Approach to Care Management

This paper summarises the outcomes of developing a radically different approach to care management in Devon, described in MCC, Vol. 6, Issue 3. It highlights the lessons learnt…

Promoting Effective Service User Engagement for People with Learning Disabilities

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