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Elderly People's Integrated Care System (EPICS)
 — an organisational, policy and practice review
Author(s)David J Hunter, Gerald Wistow
Corporate AuthorNuffield Institute for Health Service Studies
PublisherNuffield Institute for Health Service Studies, Leeds, 1991
Pages24 pp (Nuffield Institute reports, no 3
SourceNuffield Institute for Health Service Studies, 71-75 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9PL.
KeywordsServices ; Health services ; Community care ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Planning [admin] ; United States of America ; United Kingdom.
AnnotationA critical analysis of the EPICS concept by the Nuffield Institute set against the then emerging Community Care Act. Contents: Preface; Summary; Introduction; The demographic context; EPICS, concept and context; Joint Planning, Joint Management and Joint working; Financial Issues; Guidelines for Practice; Towards a policy context; Some key distinctions between EPICS and Common practice; On Lok (San Francisco, USA) Senior Health Services: An Integrated scheme; The Foundation's practical development of EPICS. [RHb] [EPICS collection].
Accession NumberCPA-980216015 B
ClassmarkI: L: PA: QAJ: QK6: QA6: 7T: 8

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