... insights are advanced. Evidence-based policy Integrated care Public sector reform Policy implementation The authors of this paper co-led an evaluation of the integrated care pilots (ICPs) in England, leading a team comprising RAND Europe, EY, University of Cambridge and the Nuffield Trust...

... the necessary flexibility and involving key constituencies along the way. Care partnerships Public sector reform Health and social care Policy implementation Partnership working, i.e. services collaborating across sectors and organisations, has been identified as central to achieving a wide...

... of difference to explicate why such a diversity of perspectives exists, and how there is more common ground than might be assumed. Dr Catherine Needham can be contacted at: c.needham.1@bham.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Evidence-based policy Health care management Public sector...

... still be present. Responses were gathered from all areas across Scotland with the exception of Borders. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Scotland Barriers Integrated health and social care Public sector reform Transformational change Strategic change The most...

... significant, with planning for, at least, all of adult social care and primary health care, and a proportion of acute hospital care, included in the new integrated arrangements. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Integrated health and social care Evidence-based policy Public sector reform...

...), coordinating local commissioning and injecting local democratic accountability into a service from which it had been progressively removed between 1974 and 1991. Integration principles National Health Service Local government Joint commissioning Democracy Public sector reform Health and wellbeing...

...Bob Hudson Public sector reform will be at the heart of Labour's third term of office. The changes under way or planned in children's services and adult social care services in England are prototypes of the pursuit of services that are person‐centred, seamless and proactive, with a focus...