Avoiding the legal minefield when providing integrated health and social care – Anne Crofts, Partner at DAC Beachcroft looks at the issues

Integrated care is a term that has no specific legal meaning. The concept of integrated care’ is applied in a diverse range of settings, ranging from the integration of teams within a single organisation, for example where community services have been transferred into a hospital trust, to the co-location or joint management of health and social service teams, to the design and delivery of new clinical pathways across multiple providers.