Does integrated governance lead to integrated patient care? : Findings from the innovation forum
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Beech, Roger
Henderson, Catherine
Ashby, Sue
Dickinson, Angela
Sheaff, Rod
Windle, Karen
Wistow, Gerald
Knapp, Martin
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2299/11833
Abstract
Good integration of services that aim to reduce avoidable acute hospital bed use by older people requires frontline staff to be aware of service options and access them in a timely manner. In three localities where closer inter-organisational integration was taking place, this research sought patients’ perceptions of the care received across and within organisational boundaries.