Signposting services in the UK: enhanced support or service diversion for people with health and social care needs: a rapid realist synthesis
Anna Cantrell,
Andrew Booth,
Duncan Chambers
Abstract:PurposeIn the UK signposting services can be developed as enhanced support for people with health and social care needs or service diversion to help primary and urgent care services manage their workload. This review considers these two conflicting purposes.Design/methodology/approachThe review used a realist approach, initial searches to identify theory; we then selected 22 publications and extracted programme theories, from which we developed questions from three viewpoints: the service user, the front-line … Show more
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