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Progress Towards Partnership? The Development of Relations between Primary Care Organisations and Social Services Concerning Older People's Services in the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2004

Kirstein Rummery
Kirstein Rummery
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Social Science, University of Manchester E-mail: Kirstein.Rummery@man.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper will present evidence from the interim results of a large scale longitudinal project designed to track the development of partnership working between the new primary care organisations (Primary Care Groups and Trusts) entrusted with the commissioning and in some cases provision of health care, and local authority social services departments, regarding health and social care services for older people in the UK. Drawing on theoretical work concerning the role of partnership working in the governance of welfare, the author uses a framework originally devised by the Nuffield Centre for Health at the University of Leeds to analyse the interim data, and to draw conclusions about the feasibility of current policy pushes towards partnership working and service integration around health and social care for older people.

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Social Policy and Society , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 33 - 42
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© Cambridge University Press 2003

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