What is integrated care?
Initiatives
such as `integrated care pathways', `patient-centred care' and `shared decision-making'
are examples of attempts to align clinical, managerial and service user interests, and to
improve coordination of care for patients, in particular those with long-term conditions.
New forms of health care organisation such as care trusts (Glasby and Peck, 2005),
managed clinical networks (Woods, 2001), accountable care organisations in the US
(Rittenhouse and others, 2009) and local clinical partnerships (Smith and others,
2009) are all examples of different attempts to reshape the way in which combinations
of primary, secondary, community and adult social care services are organised and
delivered.
5 What is integrated care?
Case study
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