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Social work, general practice and evidence-based policy in the collaborative care of older people
— current problems and future possibilities | | Author(s) | Kalpa Kharicha, Enid Levin, Steve Iliffe |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 12, no 2, March 2004 |
| Pages | pp 134-141 |
| Source | www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Social Services Departments ; General practice ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services]. |
| Annotation | At present, primary care trusts (PCTs) have little sound evidence to guide them in their innovative work on collaborative (or joint) working (CW). While practitioners both in health and social services report benefits to their own work from the new arrangements, there is no sound evidence on the benefit to either patients or the wider community. Nor has CW been widely evaluated in systematic studies with a comparative design. The authors propose the following processes for future evaluation of CW: study populations must be comparable; details of how services are actually delivered must be obtained and colocation should not be assumed to mean collaboration; care packages in areas of comparable resources should be examined; both destinational outcomes and user-defined evaluations of benefit should be considered; possible disadvantages of integrated care should be actively considered; and evaluations should include an economic evaluation. Those implementing new policies in the PCTs should take the opportunity to rigorously test the advantages and disadvantages of collaboration. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040505207 A |
| Classmark | PF: L5: QAJ: QK6 |
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