Recruitment to social care roles in remote and rural contexts; strengthening the weakest link in integrated care?
This study of EVP in four organisations in a rural setting in Scotland focussed on young people as a target demographic. This study interprets recruitment challenges in social care in three contexts, the technical-instrumental, the hermeneutic and the emancipatory.EVP articulation is at present not effective. Refreshed and new messaging has potential to attract, employ and nurture young people to the social care sector in remote and rural places.Recruiting to social care vacancies is crucial for sustainable social care. Improving the recruitment of young people is a key part of the longer-term solution. More studies on rec...
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - August 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Stephen Gibb Source Type: research
Exploring the spread and scale of a web-based clinical decision support portal in Sydney, Australia, during COVID-19: a case study
Exploring the spread and scale of a web-based clinical decision support portal in Sydney, Australia, during COVID-19: a case study Anna McGlynn, Éidín Ní Shé, Paul Bennett, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Tony Jackson, Ben Harris-Roxas Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- HealthPathways is an online decision support portal, primarily aimed at General Practitioners (GPs), that provides easy to access and up to date clinical, referral and resource pathways. It is free to access, with the intent of providing the right care, at the right place, at the right time. This case study focuses on the exper...
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - August 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anna McGlynn Éidín Ní Shé Paul Bennett Siaw-Teng Liaw Tony Jackson Ben Harris-Roxas Source Type: research
Media presentation of hospital discharge to care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic
This study aimed to examine how the media in the United Kingdom portrayed hospital discharge to care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.This study was a qualitative document analysis. Four sources (Daily Mail, The Independent, The Guardian and BBC News) were selected to represent political orientations encompassing right-wing, centrist and left-wing perspectives, and were searched for mention of hospital discharge, care homes and Covid-19 pandemic between 1st January 2020 and 24th February 2022. Article text was copied verbatim into Microsoft Word documents prior to analysis. Data were thematically analysed, followed by co...
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - August 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Eniola Abe Pamela Dawson Jason Scott Source Type: research
An integrated multisectoral and multidisciplinary community of practice collaboration to enhance child wellbeing in South Africa
An integrated multisectoral and multidisciplinary community of practice collaboration to enhance child wellbeing in South Africa Sadiyya Haffejee, Sonia Mbowa, Leila Patel Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- There is a growing call both globally and nationally for integrated multisectoral and multidisciplinary systems of care to be implemented for children's needs in the foundation stages of their growth to be met. Extant literature shows that historical, structural, epidemiological, political and social factors create many adversities for South African children both in the short and...
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - August 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sadiyya Haffejee Sonia Mbowa Leila Patel Source Type: research
Antecedents of physicians' intentions to engage in digital volunteering work: an extended technology acceptance model (TAM) approach
This study reveals that engaging in digital volunteering can be promoted during health crises as an effective strategy to provide support and assist public health institutions and emergency management.To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first study from Africa that explores digital volunteer work, and the first study that extends the TAM to investigate digital volunteer intention among physicians. (Source: Journal of Integrated Care)
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - August 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ahmed Chemseddine Bouarar Smail Mouloudj Tungki Pratama Umar Kamel Mouloudj Source Type: research
The organisation of paediatric hospital-at-home care: a multi-country comparative study
The objective of this study is to compare the organisation of paediatric HAH in four countries: France, Australia (states of Victoria and New South Wales), the Netherlands and Belgium. Ultimately, lessons can be drawn for further development in the countries analysed and/or for implementation in other countries.Legal documents and other grey literature were analysed to describe the legal context for the provision of paediatric HAH in the selected countries. In addition, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with key informants from paediatric HAH organisations in these countries, addressing the following topic...
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - July 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: M élanie Lefèvre Jens Detollenaere Renate Zeevaert Carine Van de Voorde Source Type: research
Meeting the complex health and social care needs of older adults: a response to the recent viewpoint paper on “how to handle gerontocracy”
Meeting the complex health and social care needs of older adults: a response to the recent viewpoint paper on “how to handle gerontocracy” Julie Feather Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This paper aims to provide a response to the previously published paper on “Gerontocracy”.This paper views care services through the lens of safeguarding, risks and responsibility in contradistinction from the largely economic and cost relevant argument put forward in the original paper.This paper articulates the contribution of informal carers to integrated care solutions solely from an e...
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - July 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Julie Feather Source Type: research
COVID-19: a catalyst for change in remote and rural advanced clinical practice – A qualitative study
COVID-19: a catalyst for change in remote and rural advanced clinical practice – A qualitative study Rachel King, Clare Carolan, Steve Robertson Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The purpose of this study is to explore the sustainability of innovations introduced during the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic in remote and rural primary care advanced clinical practice. The methodology includes an exploratory qualitative study of eight key stakeholders from Scottish remote and rural primary care advanced practice (three policymakers and five advanced practitioners). Data ...
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - July 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rachel King Clare Carolan Steve Robertson Source Type: research
Exploring clinicians ’ experiences of how efficient virtual elective knee clinics are compared to traditional face-to-face clinics
This study aims to explore clinicians’ experiences of how efficient virtual elective knee clinics (VEKC) are in an orthopaedic setting in comparison to traditional face-to-face clinics. The study utilised a mixed-methods study to obtain qualitative and quantitative data. This involved an anonymous online survey in addition to in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with a purposive sample of multidisciplinary colleagues who work with the VEKC in an acute hospital. Three overarching themes and nine sub-themes emerged in the qualitative analysis. Overall, clinicians in both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the...
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - July 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ronan Henry Source Type: research
Looking for integrated elderly care in practice
Looking for integrated elderly care in practice Anna-Mari Juutinen Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp.85-89 The goal of integrated, multidisciplinary and person-centered care is on the welfare policy agenda in many countries, but how about integrated service delivery in action? This paper describes a three-year service journey of an elderly person from home to a nursing home through home care, specialized hospital and inpatient care. The aim of this viewpoint paper is to consider how customer orientation and integration are realized when an older lady living an active life becomes seriously ill and loses the a...
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - July 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anna-Mari Juutinen Source Type: research
Surviving COVID-19 and beyond: a mixed-method study
Surviving COVID-19 and beyond: a mixed-method study Swati Paranjape, Amogh Patkar Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The present study was aimed to explore and analyse the multifaceted impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on quality-of-life of survivors, in physical, social, psychological and environmental health domains. This explanatory mixed-method study was conducted on 20 patients admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a tertiary care hospital having mild-to-moderate clinical spectrum. Scores of WHO Quality of Life Brief Version (WHO QOL BREF) questionnaire, a qua...
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - July 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Swati Paranjape Amogh Patkar Source Type: research
Positive about place – West Midlands health and wellbeing boards in a changing governance environment – a review
Brendan Clifford, Sandra Squires, Jenny Layton Wood Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- To share a case study of a service improvement review of practice and ambition for Health and Wellbeing Boards in the English West Midlands in the changing context of Integrated Care Systems.Mixed qualitative methods: 33 semi-structured interviews with senior care and health leaders; a computer-based self-assessment tool for Health and Wellbeing Boards; and desktop analysis of Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies.“Place-based partnership” is a motivating concept, embracing the agency of leader...
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - July 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Brendan Clifford Sandra Squires Jenny Layton Wood Source Type: research
Community-based volunteering in response to Covid-19: people, process and planning
This study aimed to determine the processes by which volunteers were rapidly engaged in their communities and their impact on the older people who were supported and health and social care services.The study took place in South East England between May–August 2020. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 88 participants including health and social care practitioners (n = 12), leaders of voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations (n = 25), volunteers (n = 26) and older people receiving volunteer support (n = 25). Policy and procedure documents were sourced from the VCSE organisation lea...
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - July 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Julie MacInnes Bridget Jones Kat Frere-Smith Vanessa Abrahamson Tamsyn Eida Rebecca Sharp Heather Gage Patricia Wilson Source Type: research
Case study of an integrated health and social care initiative for geriatric patients in rural Alberta
This study demonstrates that IHSC occurs at the local level and that primary care providers can drive IHSC successfully. (Source: Journal of Integrated Care)
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - June 23, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Siu Mee Cheng Cristina Catallo Source Type: research
Using a meta-ethnographic approach to explore the role of interprofessional education in inclusion health for health and care staff
This study made use of electronic databases and journals for English language peer reviewed articles between 2000 and 2020. Of the 2217 articles, 19 papers were included. The lead author and reviewer completed the review process and a second reviewer reviewed 10% at each stage. The quality was assessed using a modified CASP checklist. Iterative analysis involved PPI and staff stakeholders.A total of 16 concepts embedded in 19 papers provide insight into the nature of IPE in IH (IH) for staff. It was found that IPE in IH covers a broad group of practitioners and is a complex activity involving individual and organisation re...
Source: Journal of Integrated Care - June 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Zana Khan Sophie Park Georgia Black Source Type: research
