What is it about?
This chapter aims to address the importance of integrated care including ; user satisfaction, the shortened path following desirable characteristics of integrated care: Joint care commissioning, adequate ring-fenced funding, strategic leadership and planning, cross training for professionals and good adherence to evidence- based protocols.
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Why is it important?
The article outlines the adverse impacts of disjointed care including; unnecessary multiple referrals, inefficient multiple assessments, delays in accessing timely assessment and management, frustration and distress for affected children and their families and conflicts among professionals.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a great pleasure as it led to extensive evidence based review of the existing literature on integrated care and also provoke closer collaboration between child psychiatrists and paediatricians in the assessment and management of children and young people with neurodevelopmental problems and associated mental health difficulties.
Hani Ayyash
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Southend- On-Sea
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This page is a summary of: The Role of Integrated Services in the Care of Children and Young People with Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Co-Morbid Mental Health Difficulties: An International Perspective, October 2023, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/9789815124187123020007.
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