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Active steps to prevention — [early results from the Innovation Forum's older people project]
Author(s)	Gerald Wistow, Derek King
Journal title	Community Care, no 1629, 29 June 2006
Pages	pp 32-33
Source	http://www.communitycare.co.uk
Keywords	Preventative medicine ; Services ; Health services ; Coordination ; Projects ; Pilot.
Annotation	A long-term objective for health and social care has been to re-balance services and investments so that older people have fewer hospital admissions. The results from the first year of a local authority led initiative suggest that this objective is beginning to be achieved. If sustained, it will demonstrate the ability of councils to initiate and lead the co-ordination of change in acute hospitals and community services. The authors outline first results from the Innovation Forum project, Improving Futures for Older People, which is being piloted in Kent (the lead council), Cornwall, Cheshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Westminster, West Sussex and Wigan. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-060704203 A
Classmark	LK2: I: L: QAJ: 3E: 4UC *
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