social care

Providing care services across several departments and care givers creates the complexity of the patient pathways, as it deals with different departments, policies, professionals, regulations and many more. One example of complex patient pathways (CPP) is one that exists in inte…

Social care and health services for older people in Cambridgeshire have been integrated since April 2004. This study examines the effect of the integration programme on service users. Previous research into health and social care integrations predominantly centre on process issu…

Background: This thesis explores routine social care data collection and management processes resulting from the Scottish Government's strategic vision for 2020 and the formal implementation of health and social care integration. Key to this strategy is the initiative to use rou…