Monday, March 22, 2004

Report recommends one-stop social care shops (UK)
Brief story in Health and Care - "The Institute for Public Policy Research has called on local authorities and health service providers, in particular Primary Care Trusts, to set up ‘connected care centres’. In its report, Meeting Complex Needs: The Future of Social Care, it said that funding the one-stop social care shops (offering mental health, drug misuse and unemployment/housing services) could be found by pooling existing money used to provide social care services." See also the related IPPR press release. The full report is available for a fee at their web site.