ASSIGNMENT QUESTION 

Integrating Health and Social Care services is in the spotlight in terms of government policy and local planning and can be considered an important contemporary health and social care issue. 

Health services and social care services are often too fragmented and based around the needs of service organisation, culture and professional boundaries rather than the needs of patients. 

The government wants to see the integration of health and social care, in every area of England, by 2020. Despite this, integration is the exception rather than the norm. 

There are different views, and there is a variety of evidence, on the drivers and the obstacles for integrated care. 

Your newly elected Member of Parliament (MP) for your London Borough, has asked you to 

prepare a report for her on the arguments for and against integrating care in her Borough. 

You must present conclusions and 4 to 6 recommendations on the integration of care in the 

Borough which flow from the arguments used in the body of the report. 

The assignment must be in a report format. You must address the issues relating to 

integration both in a national context and in relation to a London Borough