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Health and wellbeing boards
— policy and prospects | | Author(s) | Richard Humphries |
| Journal title | Journal of Integrated Care, vol 21, no 1, 2013 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2013 |
| Pages | pp 6-12 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/jica.htm |
| Keywords | Health services ; Well being ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Coordination ; Social policy ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | This review explores the role of health and wellbeing boards in the context of the Government's reforms introduced by the Health and Social Act 2012, and the fundamental challenges facing the NHS and local government. The review draws on an analysis of the policy literature and on telephone interviews with representatives of 50 health and wellbeing boards from a cross section of English local authorities. Early experience of the boards in shadow form indicates there is considerable optimism about their prospects to achieve greater success in achieving integrated services but they face formidable challenges arising from a hostile financial climate and unchanged national policy fault lines that have hindered effective integration to date. Five factors that are likely to determine the effectiveness of boards are identified. Their biggest single challenge arises from the role of local government in delivering strong, credible and shared leadership which engages people in transforming local services. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130315209 A |
| Classmark | L: D:F:5HH: QK6: QAJ: TM2: 4C |
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