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Moving Services out of hospital: Joining up General Practice and community services?

Bramwell, D. and Checkland, K. and Allen, P. and Peckham, Stephen (2014) Moving Services out of hospital: Joining up General Practice and community services? Project report. PRUComm (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:46754)

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Abstract

Closer collaboration between primary care and community health services is a clear objective of the most recent NHS reforms. Currently, there is much emphasis on integrating healthcare

services and in particular, moving care closer to home and out of the acute care setting by utilising Community Services and Primary Care.

This report summarises the findings of a rapid review undertaken by PRUComm of the available evidence of what factors should be taken into account in planning for the closer working of primary and community health/care services in order to increase the scope of services provided outside of hospitals. We synthesised the findings of recent reviews of the published literature seeking to examine evidence relevant to answering the question:

What factors should be taken into account in planning for the greater integration of primary and community care services in order to increase the scope of services provided outside hospitals?

We examined evidence focused at three different levels:

Micro-level – factors affecting the effectiveness of multidisciplinary team-working

Meso-level- the impact of service organisation and delivery issues, including population coverage and service location

Macro-level – structural issues, such as ownership models and financing

Item Type: Reports and Papers (Project report)
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General) > R729 Types of medical practice > R729.5.G4 General practice
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies
Depositing User: Stephen Peckham
Date Deposited: 20 Jan 2015 13:50 UTC
Last Modified: 17 Aug 2022 10:58 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/46754 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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