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Common experiences of staff working in integrated health and social care organisations
— a European perspective | | Author(s) | Kirstie Coxon |
| Journal title | Journal of Integrated Care, vol 13, issue 2, April 2005 |
| Pages | pp 13-21 |
| Source | http://www.pavpub.com |
| Keywords | Health services ; Services ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Attitude ; Personnel ; European Union ; Projects ; Europe. |
| Annotation | PROCARE (Providing Integrated Health and Social Care for Older People: Issues, Problems and Solutions) is a project funded by the European Union (EU) involving nine partner countries - Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, the UK, Denmark, Greece and the Netherlands - doing simultaneous case studies of integrated care organisations. This paper presents a comparison of the views of staff working in 18 integrated care settings undertaken as part of PROCARE. The data reveal some apparent commonalities across the nine countries. Increased job satisfaction was an advantage of integrated working, but respondents also reported difficulties in working with hospitals or medical professionals, and continued barriers to integrated working generally. Overall, single stand-alone organisations such as home care teams reported the clearest benefits from integrated working, while cross-agency models continued to encounter significant barriers to health and social care integration. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050624502 A |
| Classmark | L: I: QAJ: QK6: DP: QM: WFC: 3E: 74 |
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