... to support carers in this role, yet also help them work towards personal outcomes to sustain their own quality of life. It also proposes that approaches to working with carers can reveal lessons for integration. Design/methodology/approach – The research analysed data from focus groups and document...

... tentative signs that some initiatives designed to join-up or integrate services can deliver outcomes desired by government. Importantly some studies that report the experiences of users of services and carers suggest that they perceive benefits from efforts to join-up or integrate services. However...

... of considerable trust between local authorities and TSOs and as a consequence TSOs were given autonomy to develop holistic and integrated models of delivery that supported rather than diverted the TSOs’ core missions. Both sectors found it difficult to set target outcomes and connected performance frameworks...

... of stakeholders. Stakeholders from a range of backgrounds were far more positive about the experience than the literature would predict to be the case. Outcomes monitoring suggests that service users were far more independent and had seen improvements on a range of dimensions. The paper finishes by formulating...

... to be able to demonstrate the outcomes that integrated health and social care services are achieving. Topical theme Joint Financing in the New NHS: Thinking to the Future Charlotte Goldman Jane Carrier Audit Commission, UK Contact details: j-carrier@audit-commission.gov.uk ABSTRACT This article follows...

...Paul Williams; Helen Sullivan There is a fund of practical and theoretical advice on how to work effectively in collaboration, but in reality outcomes are often disappointing. This paper explores aspects that frequently derail well‐intentioned collaborative endeavours, drawing on research...

...Anne Hendry Managed care networks enable virtual integration of health, social care and housing service delivery. When focused on outcomes and experience for service users and carers, they can provide integrated support for improvement in the pathways, processes and experience of care and support...

...Charlotte Goldman Joint financing across health and social care represents an opportunity for NHS bodies and councils to improve outcomes and value for money and to integrate services better. There has been much debate about the appropriateness and application of pooled fund arrangements...

...Robin Cowen Dorset County Council and partners commissioned a project in 2008 to develop a plan for ageing well in the county that engaged and involved older people. The completed plan has since been supported by Cabinet and the Local Strategic Partnership. The project was carried out using outcome...

...Kirsten Gooday; Ailsa Stewart This article will examine the potential gap between the rhetoric of reducing bureaucracy to achieve better outcomes for individuals, and the reality for community care in the framework of the introduction of a single reporting system focused on a Single Outcome...

...Helen Dickinson; Jon Glasby; Robin Miller; Linda McCarthy Health and social care partnership working is often predicated on the notion that it improves outcomes for service users. Yet there is a lack of evidence linking partnerships to changes in outcomes. Against this background, the Health...

...Nick Axford; Vashti Berry This article seeks to help senior local policy‐makers, managers and practitioners in children's services to develop robust but realistic and manageable strategies for measuring outcomes in a multi‐disciplinary context. Drawing on orthodox research methods, it sets out...

...Stephen Ball; Judith Mudd; Marie Oxley; Mike Pinnock; Hazel Qureshi; Elinor Nicholas This paper explores how a research‐based understanding of outcomes in social care can be incorporated into practice. Drawing on research by the Social Policy Research Unit and the practical experience of North...