title: Improving Outcomes through Transformational Health and Social Care Integration - The Scottish Experience.
abstract: The Scottish Parliament recently passed legislation on integrating healthcare and social care to improve the quality and outcomes of care and support for people with multiple and complex needs across Scotland. This ambitious legislation provides a national framework to accelerate progress in person-centred and integrated care and support for the growing number of people who have multiple physical and mental health conditions and complex needs. Additional investment and improvement capacity is helping to commission support and services that are designed and delivered with people in local communities and in partnership with housing, community, voluntary and independent sectors.
authors.affiliation: Anne Hendry, MBChB, FRCP (Glasg), is national clinical lead for Integrated Care for the Joint Improvement Team of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates. She is a consultant geriatrician, stroke physician and honorary clinical associate professor at the University of Glasgow, works with the Joint Improvement Team and the International Foundation for Integrated Care.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hendry
authors.affiliation: Alison Taylor, BA (Hons), MSc, is head of Integration Partnerships for the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates. She joined the Scottish Government in 2003 and has led various areas of policy development across healthcare and social care, education and business development; prior to joining the civil service, she worked in the private sector.
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.affiliation: Stewart Mercer, MBChB, BSc, MSc, PhD, FRCGP (UK), is professor of Primary Care Research in the Department of General Practice and Primary Care's Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. He is internationally recognized for his published work on multimorbidity.
authors.forename: Stewart
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mercer
authors.affiliation: Peter Knight, BSc, MSc, is program lead for Partnership Information for the Joint Improvement Team of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates. He is a leading information analyst/designer whose work spans the healthcare and social care interface in Scotland. He is widely experienced across topics as diverse as acute hospital activity, social care and community health, public health and measurement of function.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Knight
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015897:Comorbidity; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D012606:Scotland; D012947:Social Work / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000458:organization & administration*