| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
Looking inwards, looking outwards
— dismantling the "Berlin Wall" between health and social services? | | Author(s) | Julia Hiscock, Maggie Pearson |
| Journal title | Social Policy and Administration, vol 33, no 2, June 1999 |
| Pages | pp 150-163 |
| Keywords | Health Authorities and Trusts ; Social Services Departments ; General practitioners ; Social workers ; Coordination ; North West England. |
| Annotation | This paper argues that at a time when policy guidance urged closer collaboration and joint working between health and social services, the long-established cultural and professional gaps were widening and deteriorating. Drawing on data from four research sites in two health districts in north-west England, the paper identifies deterioration as being rooted principally in practitioners' preoccupations with changes within their own organisations and daily work, resulting from a major period of change in both health and social services, and at the expense of the joint working required by the "Caring for people" reforms. As the policy environment changes again under the Labour government, it is likely that health and social care practitioners will be working within further organisational turbulence and change. It will be crucial that those changes are managed in such a way that they avoid the very real danger of compounding the problems identified by respondents. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990824206 A |
| Classmark | L4A: PF: QT6: QR: QAJ: 82NW |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|