Holding, E., Blank, L., Crowder, M. et al. (1 more author) (2019) Bridging the gap between the home and the hospital : a qualitative study of partnership working across housing, health and social care. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 34 (4). pp. 493-499. ISSN 1356-1820
Abstract
Rising demand and financial challenges facing public services have increased the impetus for greater integration across housing, health and social care. To provide insight into the benefits and challenges of partnership, we interviewed 37 housing professionals and held a validation workshop with eight external agencies working within a new, integrated housing service in the United Kingdom. The strength of the initiative rests on the capacity of neighbourhood officers to conduct home visits and refer tenants to support agencies. Yet this strength poses problems in partnership building because increased referrals threaten to overwhelm already stretched health services. Despite broadly supporting the initiative, officers expressed concern over losing specialist housing knowledge whilst filling in gaps for services. Tensions over professional role boundaries between officers and social workers, poor communication, lack of capacity in external agencies and difficulties in sharing information were identified as barriers to partnership. Whilst capacity issues were acknowledged, partner agencies welcomed the initiative and called for joint meetings and colocation of services. Lack of capacity of external agencies to respond to referrals threatens integrated housing and health initiatives. Greater interprofessional collaboration and further investment across the system is required to increase capacity and ensure referrals are translated into healthcare outcomes.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Housing; health; partnerships; qualitative |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2019 09:56 |
Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2021 12:01 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13561820.2019.1694496 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:153528 |
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