New models of care: the policy discourse of integrated care

Journal article

New models of care are being pursued throughout England to balance increasing demand for improved health and social care services against reducing public expenditure. A dominant discourse has emerged about the value of community-based integrated care, despite failures of integrated care programmes to consistently demonstrate reductions in hospital admissions. Discourse analysis of integrated care policy establishes how issues of aging, hospital admissions and fragmentation are problematised, ...

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Authors: Hughes, G

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University Publisher's website
• Journal: People, Place and Policy Online Journal website
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 72-89
• Publication date: 2017-10-26
• Acceptance date: 2017-10-17
• DOI: 10.3351/ppp.2017.6792867782
• ISSN: 1753-8041
• Keywords: integrated health and social care; discourse analysis; interpretative policy analysis; emergency hospital admissions; chronic health conditions; older people