Collaboration between health and social care agencies has been happening at a practitioner level for decades. Yet, aside from a few exceptions, examples of more strategic integration – involving joint commissioning and funding structures – have proved elusive.
The growing funding crisis in adult social care has made this a crucially important issue for local government, but one in which the barriers to implementation often overshadow the solutions.
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