National Care Service - SCFNuka (Alaska) and Canterbury (New Zealand) models: integrated care studies

This paper summarises the key findings and learning from two case studies of integrated care models from different countries: the SCFNuka model from Alaska and the Canterbury model from New Zealand.


Footnotes

1. These two case studies are supplemental to the rapid evidence review looking at learning from social care systems in the Nordic and Scandinavian countries to support the development of a National Care Service for Scotland.

2. The Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature (GL '99) in Washington, DC, in October 1999 defined grey literature as follows: "That which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers."

3. The term "customer-owner" is used to describe "users" of the health system as they are seen as both a customer and an owner and not simply a user.

4. Healthcare Effectiveness Data Information Set (HEDIS)'s benchmarks for primary care usage.

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