...Leica Sarah Claydon-Mueller; Michelle Hawkins; Will Bailey; Hilary Bungay Purpose Personalized prehabilitation for surgery can be delivered through social prescribing. Worthwhile Waiting (WW) is a novel health and wellbeing coaching prehabilitation primary care intervention for patients referred...

.... Practical implications These findings support the integration of social prescribing into primary care practice through collaboration between community and healthcare organizations to potentially improve client well-being and healthcare utilization. However, these findings were based on a small number...

...) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article. 17 04 2025 24 07 2025 26 07 2025 Primary care Integrated care Care delivery Collaboration Tools Funding: This research received no financial...

...Stacy A. Ogbeide; Bridget Murphy Purpose Our goal was to assess how comfort with uncertainty (CwU), a variable connected to success in primary care physicians, was associated with readiness to perform tasks in integrated primary care. As behavioral health integration in primary care continues...

... who prioritise integrated care for older patients with multimorbidity in Japan. Design/methodology/approach In June 2022, an anonymous mail survey was sent to 3,300 certified family medicine specialists, primary care-certified physicians and geriatric specialists to assess the importance...

... between efficient (transactional) service provision and effective (relational) service provision. This is underpinned by competing narratives of whether signposting represents diversion of inappropriate demand from primary care and other urgent care services or improved quality of care through a joined-up...

... perspectives are valuable in identifying areas for improvement in the transition of care. The purpose of this qualitative study is to increase our understanding of patients’ perspectives on the transition of care from hospital to primary care. Design/methodology/approach This study employs a qualitative...

... and improving end-of-life care in nursing home settings. The aim of our study is to propose an integrated care model in a rural area, involving primary care, nursing home care and geriatric specialists, to improve the outcomes of care for institutionalized residents. Mariona Espaulella-Ferrer can...

...Jeffersson Santos; Amanda Acevedo-Morales; Lillian Jones; Tara Bautista; Carolyn Camplain; Chesleigh N. Keene; Julie Baldwin Purpose Advancing behavioral health and primary care integration is a priority for helping clients overcome the complex health challenges impacting healthcare deserts like...

... providers regarding the usefulness and practicality of the MBHS, a necessary step toward broad-based implementation. Design/methodology/approach The MBHS was given to 101 consenting patients in a primary medical outpatient setting, each of whom was then seen by one of six participating primary care...

...Rachel King; Clare Carolan; Steve Robertson Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the sustainability of innovations introduced during the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic in remote and rural primary care advanced clinical practice. Design/methodology/approach...

... Research Committee (QI ID #21–0257). The nature of this project was to explore the ways in which the ECHO Concussion program supports the development of expertise in primary care and how education may play an integral role in program success. The most tangible and direct alignment of ECHO Concussion...

... and focus groups. Types of social work activities were extracted from older adults' case records and used to calculate costs of care. The presence or absence of indicators of care quality was recorded using the same sample of case records. Data were collected from three primary care teams in which social...

... Many studies examine individual aspects of integration. However, this study is unique as it provides a comprehensive overview of the many perspectives and methodological approaches involved with evaluating integration within the primary–secondary care interface and primary care itself. Further research...

... of data from two sites working to scale up a well-thought-of, innovative integrated, primary care-based dementia service to other primary care sites. This provided an opportunity to use NPT as a means of framing understanding to explore what the theory adds to considering issues contributing...

...-being Primary care Voluntary and community sector We outline the key processes involved in each of these steps and the cross-sectoral contributions as follows. We describe steps 4 and 5 together because on reflection the authors felt that these two elements in this case study were dealt...

... in Australia. Publications from 2007 to present that described community-based enablement models were included. Findings Care co-ordination is popular in assisting the older person to bridge the gap between existing, disparate health and social care services. The role of primary care is respected...

...Robin Miller; Catherine Weir; Steve Gulati The purpose of this paper is to reflect on research evidence and practice experience of transforming primary care to a more integrated and holistic model. It is based on a scoping review which has been guided by primary care stakeholders...

..., and at the practice level with improvements in markers of patient management. The authors also found high acceptability of the program from both patients and GPs. This paper provides good evidence for the use of a JSCC program to improve diabetes management in primary care through capacity building with GPs...

... collaborative care among practitioners at the primary care level. Originality/value MHPN is a unique, national, successful platform delivering opportunities for interdisciplinary professional development in the primary mental health sector. The model is cost effective, practitioner driven, and transferable...