Shared Care

Using practical examples this book demonstrates how a theoretical model for shared care operates in practice to deliver improved health outcomes within limited resources. It shows how clinically-led initiatives can influence health care commissioning strategies and how the implementation of the model meets the needs of clinicians purchasers and providers. The model and evaluation protocols advocated here provide a firm foundation for the development of shared care in the future.

Peter Edwards, Jones Stephen, Dennis Shale, Mark Thursz

1. Introduction 2. Shared care-current aspects 3. An introduction to modelling 4. A flow process model for clinical management of shared care 5. An object-oriented approach to modelling health care 6. Components of one-sector care 7. The transfer of patients between primary and secondary 8. Implementing shared care schemes