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Making Integrated eCare a Reality in the UK: Past Failures, Current Successes, and Future Challenges

Making Integrated eCare a Reality in the UK: Past Failures, Current Successes, and Future Challenges

Mark Gretton
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781466661387|ISBN10: 1466661380|EISBN13: 9781466661394
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6138-7.ch011
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Gretton, Mark. "Making Integrated eCare a Reality in the UK: Past Failures, Current Successes, and Future Challenges." Achieving Effective Integrated E-Care Beyond the Silos, edited by Ingo Meyer, et al., IGI Global, 2014, pp. 227-239. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6138-7.ch011

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Gretton, M. (2014). Making Integrated eCare a Reality in the UK: Past Failures, Current Successes, and Future Challenges. In I. Meyer, S. Müller, & L. Kubitschke (Eds.), Achieving Effective Integrated E-Care Beyond the Silos (pp. 227-239). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6138-7.ch011

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Gretton, Mark. "Making Integrated eCare a Reality in the UK: Past Failures, Current Successes, and Future Challenges." In Achieving Effective Integrated E-Care Beyond the Silos, edited by Ingo Meyer, Sonja Müller, and Lutz Kubitschke, 227-239. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6138-7.ch011

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Abstract

Integrated health and social care has been a missed goal in the United Kingdom for many years. This chapter examines why this has been the case and what might be done to remedy this. The inception of the welfare state is described in its historical context to provide clues as to why integration has proved difficult, before examining Wistow's forensic analysis of the barriers to integration in light of this, focusing in particular on his emphasis on the difficulty of integrating the diversity of social care with the monolith of healthcare. Rigby's analogy of technological road mapping as a model for integrating care and planning services is explored in detail, before explaining how this method was utilised in the INDEPENDENT project in Hull. The chapter concludes that the analogy of “technological mapping” is a useful guide for directing services and helping to integrate care but that government too has a vital role to play.

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