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Partnership Working in Health and Social Care: What is Integrated Care and How Can We Deliver It?
Jon Glasby
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Description for Partnership Working in Health and Social Care: What is Integrated Care and How Can We Deliver It?
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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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bristol University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Better Partnership Working Series
Condition
New
Weight
146g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447312819
SKU
V9781447312819
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Ref
99-50
About Jon Glasby
Jon Glasby is Professor of Health and Social Care and Director of the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham. A qualified social worker by background, he is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Integrated Care and an NHS Non-Executive Director at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Helen Dickinson is Associate Professor of Public Governance at the University of ... Read more
Reviews for Partnership Working in Health and Social Care: What is Integrated Care and How Can We Deliver It?
"This book provides a practical and concise introduction to the literature on partnership working in health and social care for students, practitioners, policy makers and managers. ...provides the reader with quick and easy access to a breadth of literature." International Journal of Integrated Care "This book is packed with ideas and persuasively argued...immensely useful and stimulating." Research Policy and ... Read more