Evaluating the role of community-based multi-disciplinary teams in England’s Pioneer integrated health and social care programme: setting the scene

Durand, Mary Alison, Wistow, Gerald and Mays, Nicholas (2025) Evaluating the role of community-based multi-disciplinary teams in England’s Pioneer integrated health and social care programme: setting the scene. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 30 (1_suppl). 1S - 10S. ISSN 1355-8196

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Abstract

This paper introduces an evaluation of community-based, integrated health and social care multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs), primarily serving older people with long-term conditions, undertaken as part of the wider evaluation (2015-2022) of the Integrated Care and Support Pioneer Programme in England (2013-2018). To explain the context within which the MDT evaluation was undertaken, we first outline a brief history of health and social care integration policy in England, describe the Pioneer Programme and the requirements of the national ‘longer-term’ evaluation of the Pioneers. We then explain our rationale for focusing on MDTs, describe our conceptual framework of MDT functioning and provide a brief description of the evaluation design and methods, highlighting four overarching challenges we faced in undertaking it. We then briefly describe the individual papers that constitute the current supplement.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Care Policy and Evaluation Centre
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences
Date Deposited:	31 Jul 2025 10:51
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2025 15:18
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/128973

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