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Reflections on integrating medical and social care
— five laws revisited | | Author(s) | Walter Leutz |
| Journal title | Journal of Integrated Care, vol 13, issue 5, October 2005 |
| Pages | pp 3-12 |
| Source | http://www.pavpub.com |
| Keywords | Medical care ; Services ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Theory. |
| Annotation | The author reviews, rethinks, expands and applies his "Five laws for integrating medical and social care: lessons from the US and UK" (first published in the Millbank Memorial Fund Quarterly in 1999). This approach both introduces the laws to readers who don't know them, and tests their utility for those who do. The first of the five original laws is that you can integrate some of the services for all of the people, all the services for some of the people, but you can't integrate all of the services for all the people. The other four laws are: integration costs before it pays; your integration is my fragmentation; you can't integrate a square peg into a round hole; and the one who integrates calls the tune. In retrospect, real world integration efforts mix and match the original components of linkage, co-ordination and full integration. But the message remains to work at all levels, keep it simple, make finances supportive, and empower social care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051019001 A |
| Classmark | LK: I: QAJ: QK6: 4D |
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