Integration: Local government and health leaders prefer a whole system approach

"Local government and health leaders believe whole system integration models are a better option than pathways for specific conditions"

Integration: Local government and health leaders prefer a whole system approach
R Dalton
Health Service Journal Supplement
June 2015

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Joining up health and social care personal budgets: Key points on implementation

"Joint health and care personal budgets offer a potential model for delivering integrated care from the bottom up, at the level of the individual person. This briefing outlines the key themes from a workshop for senior professionals on joining up personal budgets, held at the King’s Fund. It also sets out a series of practical approaches to implementation that might be considered by local
leaders as they develop their approaches to integrating personal budgets."

Joining up health and social care personal budgets: Key points on implementation
NHS Confederation Briefing
January 2015 Issue 280

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Maximising Older People's use of Personal Budgets

"The overarching aim of the programme was to ‘improve social care outcomes for older people using personal budgets’. Within this overall aim, the programme had a number of specific objectives based on the development of an ‘innovative volunteer-delivery model’"

Maximising Older People's use of Personal Budgets (MOPPU): Project Evaluation Report
A Ellis Paine, R Taylor, C Needham, R Littlechild, H Buckingham
Age UK
October 2014

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Joint personal budgets: a new solution to the problem of integrated care?

"This Briefing introduces joint personal budgets for health and social care. It gives the context behind their development, explains how they might work and lists some of the issues that need to be considered before they could be used at scale."

Joint personal budgets: a new solution to the problem of integrated care?
NHS Confederation
October 2012 Issue 251

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