Monday, 5 October 2015

Integration and continuity of primary care: polyclinics and alternatives

"In recent years the NHS has introduced new organisations and ways of working in order to improve the care of people with complex health needs. These approaches include general practitioner-led health centres, ‘case management’ (where a community matron or similar co-ordinates patients’ care) and (especially in London) ‘polyclinics’. We wanted to find out how these approaches compare in terms of improving the co-ordination of patient care across the range of services."

Integration and continuity of primary care: polyclinics and alternatives – a patient-centred analysis of how organisation constrains care co-ordination
R Sheaff, J Halliday, J Ovretveit, R Byng, M Exworthy, S Peckham, S Asthana
Health Services and Delivery Research, 2015, 3(35)

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