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Does integration really make a difference?
— a comparison of old age psychiatry services in England and Northern Ireland | | Author(s) | S Reilly, D Challis, A Burns |
| Corporate Author | Personal Social Services Research Unit - PSSRU, University of Manchester |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 18, no 10, October 2003 |
| Pages | pp 887-893 |
| Keywords | Psychiatric treatment ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Comparison ; England ; Northern Ireland. |
| Annotation | Northern Ireland has one of the most structurally integrated and comprehensive models of health and personal social services in Europe. This cross-sectional survey sought to find out whether integrated structures are associated with more integrated forms of service, by a postal questionnaire to consultants in old age psychiatry in England and Northern Ireland. The integrated health and social care services in Northern Ireland do appear to provide more integrated patterns of working, primarily in managerial arrangements and in the location of staff. There was no evidence of the impact of integration on practice in areas such as assessment, referral and medical screening. The factors found to be associated with greater integration of health and social care in the prediction model fell into three categories: provision of specialist services; provision of outreach activities; and shared policies by which the whole team worked. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031106201 A |
| Classmark | LP: QAJ: QK6: 48: 82: 9Y |
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