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Advancing Integrated Health and Social Care: A Social Work Insight

Explore the integration of health and social care from a social work perspective. Discuss key drivers for change, professionalism queries, and research evidence. Delve into the challenges and opportunities in this evolving landscape. The text offers a registered social worker's perspective, blending practice and management experience with a focus on inter-professional education and leadership. Discover the impacts of demographic changes and financial considerations on service delivery and outcomes. Learn from experiences in England and Scotland, highlighting the importance of leadership, evaluation, and user-focused approaches.

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Advancing Integrated Health and Social Care: A Social Work Insight

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  1. Integration of health and social care: A social work perspective

  2. Outline Make my perspective clear Look at the drivers for change Ask questions about professionalism Summarise the research evidence

  3. My perspective Registered social worker Practice and management background, including partnership working “Late onset academic” Part-time secondment to GCU Involved in inter-professional education

  4. Would we have started from here?

  5. Drivers for change Demographics (more over 65’s than under 15’s) Improving outcomes Personalisation Putting leadership at the heart “Perhaps most ambitiously, it is about establishing a public service landscape in which different public bodies are required to work together” (Scottish Government, 2013)

  6. Drivers for change Money £4.5 billion on health and social care for over 65’s Emergency admissions £1.4 billion 7% spent on care at home

  7. Scottish Government position (Feb 2013) Intention to legislate, including for outcomes Political accountability Financial “It is therefore our intention, as respondents have suggested, to legislate for a duty on Health and Social Care Partnerships to ‘engage with and involve’, rather than merely to ‘consult’ local professionals”

  8. Lessons from England Integration needs to start from a focus on those who use services Crucial importance of leadership Policy should be tight on ends and loose on means Integration takes time to achieve Importance of evaluation (Ham and Oldham, 2009)

  9. Professionalism

  10. Petch review Social services for adults have delivered major achievements de-institutionalisation greater choice and control by the individual At the same time there has been recognition of key areas such as needs of carers and dementia

  11. Petch review (2) repeat and emergency hospital admissions enduring issues at the boundaries between systems, most notably between hospital and community a strong body of evidence demonstrating that structural integration between health and social care does not deliver.

  12. Different or the same? (Hudson, 2007) 12

  13. Old or new? (Hudson, 2007) 13

  14. Old or new? (Petch, 2011) 14

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  16. References Ham, C. and Oldham, J., 2009, “Integrating health and social care in England: Lessons from early adopters and implications for policy, Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 16, no. 6., pp.3-9. Hudson, B., 2007. Pessimism and optimism in inter-professional working: The Sedgefield Integrated Team. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 21, 1, 3-15. Petch, A., 2011, An evidence base for the delivery of adult services, IRISS, Glasgow. Scottish Government, 2013, Integration of adult health and social care in Scotland consultation: Scottish government response, Edinburgh, Scottish Government.

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