Health and social care: establishing a joint future
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Irrespective of national context and the precise nature of local services, most developed nations are currently exploring different ways of developing more integrated health and social care. Responding to demographic changes, advances in medicine and technology, and rising public expectations, health and social care systems are increasingly recognising that greater partnership working is one of the only ways forward. In the UK, this is summed up by New Labour’s regular mantra about creating ‘joined-up solutions to joined-up problems’, or by the more controversial decision of a previous Health Secretary to describe the relationship between health and social care as a ‘Berlin Wall’. Against this background, Alison Petch’s book, Health and Social Care: Establishing a Joint Future, provides a short (96 pages) but invaluable overview of the issues at stake.
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