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Partnership Working in Health and Social Care: What Is Integrated Care and How Can We Deliver It?
Contributor(s): Glasby, Jon (Author), Dickinson, Helen (Author)
ISBN: 1447312813     ISBN-13: 9781447312819
Publisher: Policy Press
OUR PRICE:   $23.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Social Work
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
- Social Science | Sociology - General
Dewey: 362.109
Series: Better Partnership Working
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5" W x 7.8" (0.50 lbs) 128 pages
 
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UK health and social care are increasingly being asked to work together across traditional agency boundaries. Although this sounds easy in theory, doing it in practice is complicated and difficult. In many cases, moreover, current training programmes, research and textbooks are even more divided than front-line services, and practitioners and managers are often being given the task of making partnerships work without the necessary support. Against this background, the second edition of this bestselling book provides a concise 'warts and all' introduction to partnership and integration, summarising updated references to current policy and research, setting out useful frameworks and approaches, and helping policy makers and practitioners to work more effectively together, with greater emphasis on 'integrated care'. Written by the leading authors in the field and fully updated since the Health and Social Care Act 2012, the book is also fully evidence- and research-based, while still being accessible and applicable to everyday practice. Aimed at students, practitioners, managers and policy makers in health and social care, and including new reflective exercises and boxed examples, this is still the one book that everyone in the field should read.

Contributor Bio(s): Glasby, Jon: - Jon Glasby is professor of health and social care and head of the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham.
Dickinson, Helen: - Helen Dickinson is associate professor of public governance at the University of Melbourne. She is coeditor of The Journal of Health, Organization and Management and the Australian Journal of Public Administration.