health and social care divide

Jon Glasby is a qualified social worker and Senior Lecturer in the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, UK. Rosemary Littlechild is a Lecturer in Social Work at the Institute of Applied Social Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.

• Introduction; Partnership working in health and social care; Health and social care: the legal and policy context; Andrew's story: hospital discharge; Bert and Babu's story: rehabilitation and intermediate care; Ben's story: continuing care; Ivy's story: domiciliary care in the community; Marjorie's story: older people with mental health problems; Mary and Dennis' story: primary care; Postscript: Sid and May's story.

"... achieves what it sets out to do: it is accessible to a wide range of readers. For consumers of services it provides knowledge and powerful insights; for students, practitioners, managers and teachers in health and social care it is an invaluable textbook in a complicated area of policy and practice; for researchers and policy makers it brings together and synthesizes definitive polices and research. It's also a good read." Journal of Interprofessional Care