...Brendan Clifford; Sandra Squires; Jenny Layton Wood The case study adds to the relatively less well-developed literature on Health and Wellbeing Boards and their link with Integrated Care Partnerships. Health and wellbeing boards Integrated care partnerships Adult social care Public...

...” system of adult social care has been at the heart of policy debates in Great Britain. However, policy developments in Northern Ireland are more limited than in other parts of the UK, and less attention has been paid to reforming adult social care. The purpose of this paper is to examine the views...

... to adults and older people, an area under-reported to date. It suggests that there are opportunities available for these services to become embedded within a wider social care system and to excel by retaining or developing specialist roles and services. Adult social care Qualitative research...

...Anna Coleman; Caroline Glendinning Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine research evidence on collaboration between primary and adult social care in strategic, rather than operational, activities at two different time points, following large-scale changes within the health and social...

... School for Social Care Research in order to summarise learning from recent literature. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a review of the literature on older people’s services and the relationship between general practice and adult social care, published in the UK from 2000 onwards...

...Catherine Mangan; Robin Miller; Carol Ward Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings of the first stage of a project seeking to improve interprofessional working between general practice and adult social care teams. It develops the current evidence base through findings...

... commissioning; joint commissioning; adult social care; community health services; inspection and regulation; performance management frameworks New context, new drivers The new context in which integrated commissioning sits is summarised in Table 1, overleaf. Complexity and contradiction Although these factors...