Social enterprise-A new challenge for nursing practice and collaborative partnerships

摘要

Re-engineered service delivery models are emerging in the United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS) and the wider health and social care context. Reflecting a global interest in social responsibility and collective responses to social issues, social enterprise models of health care are viewed as a solution in the move to individualised care for service users and carers (Ward, 2008). In the UK the possibility of new forms of services in primary and community care (Crisp, 2005) are becoming a reality, as the policy intentions of Our Health, Our Care, Our Say (DOH, 2006a) and the market in personalised health and social care increases. Funding incentives exist for local authorities to opt for individualised budgets for social care in England, together with the potential for Primary Care Trusts to operate different commissioning strategies for its constituents.