Integrated Care Programs: A Critical Analysis of National and Local Perspective

Running head: HEALTH CARE POLICY
Health Care Policy
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Executive Summary
Integrated Care is a perfect combination of mental and primary healthcare. It helps in
improving the overall trends and reforms in the healthcare. The report aims to critically
analyse the Integrated Care Programs (ICPs) perspective at the national level and at the local
level from the perspective of Greenwich Borough of London. The report also aims to analyze
organisational level of planning and the healthcare management level via implementation of
the public health planning, healthcare management planning, and leadership theory and
change management.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Greenwich Borough of London.................................................................................................4
Critical analysis of the issue of integrating care........................................................................4
National Level........................................................................................................................4
At Local Level........................................................................................................................5
Critical evaluation under Mayo’s Human Relations theory...................................................6
Driving and Restraining forces behind the Policy Implementation.......................................7
Application of healthcare management......................................................................................8
Organisational System’s theory.............................................................................................8
Kurt Lewin’s Change Management Model............................................................................9
Leadership Theory.................................................................................................................9
Quality of Care.....................................................................................................................10
Conclusion................................................................................................................................10
Recommendation......................................................................................................................11
Implementation of transformational leadership...................................................................11
Increase of privatization along with increase in the insurance coverage.............................12
Increase in the overall skills of the healthcare professionals to effectively implement
change management in ICPs................................................................................................12
References................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
Integrated Care combines both mental health and primary care under one setting. It is
also known as comprehensive health care, coordinated healthcare, transmural care or
seamless care. It is a world-wide trend in healthcare reforms. It focuses on new organizational
arrangements with co-ordinated and integrated support for the care provision. Providing
integrated care helps patients and their carer by blending the expertise of mental health,
substance abuse and expertise of primary care clinicians. Integrated Care Combines help in
the generation of team-based approach where mental health care and general medical care are
offered under the same settings. This kind of integrated care helps in improving the overall
health status of an individual (National Institute of Mental Health 2018). The following report
is based on the perspective of Member of Parliament (MP). Here the perspective of MP from
the London Borough will be used to critically analyse the Integrative Care Programs (ICPs)
in a comparative manner. The comparison will be done with the national level ICPs with the
Greenwich Borough of London. Critical evaluation of the policy at the state and the national
level will be done with the help of the Mayo's Human Relations Theory. This will be
followed by a detailed explanation of the driving and restraining forces behind the policy
implementation. The second part of the assignment will deal with the application of the
healthcare management in refining the policy and the implementation process. This will be
analyzed with organisational system's theory, Kurt Lewin's Change Management Model and
transformational leadership theory. At the end, focus will be given to the quality of the care.
The evidence based analysis will be done based on the evidence based approach of the Kings
Fund. At the end, the report will highlight few recommendations based on the gaps in the
ICPs which will surface during the course of this assignment based on the perspective of the