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Scotland has been one of the leaders in the development of legislation for the integration of health and social care.

Summary of Graham’s story - taken from National Health and Wellbeing Outcomes: A Framework for Improving the Planning and Delivery of Health and Social Care Services.

King’s Fund is prolific in its critique and commentary on the issue of integrated care, so important when looking at inter-professional and inter-agency working practices.

The King’s Fund integrated care map.

Legislation is developed and subsequently enacted in Scotland.

Garner, C. (2011) ‘A future where all nurses are leaders’, American Sentinel blog, 26 January.

Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) (2013) The IHI Triple aim Initiative.

Institute of Medicine (IoM) (2015) Assessing Progress on the Institute of Medicine Report: The Future of Nursing.

Nancarrow, S., Enderby, P., Ariss, S., Smith, T., Booth, A., Campbell, M., Cantrell, A., and Parker, S. (2012) The impact of enhancing the effectiveness of interdisciplinary working (Executive Summary). National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation Programme.

Naylor, C., Alderwick, H. and Honeymann, M. (2015) Acute Hospitals and Integrated Care. London: King’s Fund.

Scottish Government (2014) National Health and Wellbeing Outcomes: A Framework for Improving the Planning and Delivery of Health and Social Care Services.

West, M., Eckert, R., Steward, K. and Passmore, B. (2014) Developing Collective Leadership for Healthcare. London: King’s Fund.