integrated care
integrated care
(1) Partnerships in which health and social care staff share information appropriately and work together to ensure that people receive the support and care they need to remain independent in the community(2) A Labour government phrase for the format of healthcare proposed by Labour’s consultation document, The New NHS: Modern and Dependable: A national framework for assessing performance—consultation document (1998) under the Blair regime—which defined integrated care as health improvement programmes jointly agreed to by all who are charged with planning or providing health and social care. Integrated care was tasked with equalising standards of care across the country, reducing bureaucracy, etc.