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The shadow health secretary also called for the NHS and local authorities to work closer together to improve care for the elderly and for "full integration" of health and social care services to be actively considered.
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He said Highland was an area of Scotland which was pioneering the integration of health and social care.
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Labour's peers, Lord Warner, a former health minister, and Lord Patel of Bradford, have amendments down on the holy grail of health policy: the integration of health with social care - removing the barriers that keep people in expensive hospital beds, when they may be better looked-after in care homes.
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Can such a new system enhance care integration and thus potentially improve the quality of both health and long-term care for those with chronic disease?
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But Singaporeans care less about fuzzy notions of integration than their own jobs, says Chung Wai-Keung of the Singapore Management University.
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Meanwhile, better integration with social care would help speed up discharge and, therefore, reduce length of stay in hospital.
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