The aim of an integrated neighbourhood team (INT) is to bring medical, nursing, and social care services to the patient’s home (or nearby) in a timely fashion, which should prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and enable earlier discharge, thus saving the NHS money and minimising disruption for patients. These ideas seem so obvious that it’s hard to work out why they haven’t been tried before. They have, of course—but because such programmes identify unmet health needs, they usually result in more spending rather than less.1 In trying to understand the latest neighbourhood team iteration, one stumbling block is the definitions: what do we mean by a neighbourhood? It can’t be based on the area of a GP …

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Helen Salisbury：社区团队正在瓦解——为了让它们发挥作用，我们需要更多的员工


综合邻里团队 （INT） 的目标是及时将医疗、护理和社会护理服务带到患者家中（或附近），这应该防止不必要的住院并实现早期出院，从而节省 NHS 的资金并最大限度地减少对患者的干扰。这些想法似乎是如此明显，以至于很难弄清楚为什么它们以前没有被尝试过。当然，他们有——但由于这些计划确定了未得到满足的健康需求，它们通常会导致更多的支出而不是更少的支出。在试图理解最新的社区团队迭代时，一个绊脚石是定义：我们所说的社区是什么意思？它不能基于 GP 的面积......