The study suggests that the development of integrated care is a long-term non-linear process, with multiple phases in which different elements of integrated care are relevant.
2. Outcomes inform the composition of integrated care teams.
Establishing across the partnership an agreed pattern of integrated care and protocols across health and social care for the elderly.
This is not the first serious challenge to the received wisdom about the financial benefits of integrated care.
The result of lack of integrated care is felt most strongly in overcrowded A&E departments and overcrowded wards.
Lansley, who suffered a stroke in his 30s, had illustrated this point at Guy's hospital by talking about the importance of integrated care for this condition.
In this new version, assurances are given that CCGs will be free to determine their own procurement decisions, and the option of "integrated care" is belatedly rediscovered.
But those that did achieved some remarkable results, not least the Torbay care trust that is still hailed today as the epitome of integrated care.
That relies on a whole new structure of integrated care packages being rolled out on a large scale in a matter of months.
The views and experiences of those on the receiving end of "integrated care" need to be centre-stage – yet we know next to nothing about them.
Countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) with the tradition of integrated care and education emphasise child's development and well being.
