Integrated care and the fight for social justice
“If there isn’t a manual, Montefiore does offer us some guiding principles. It highlights the benefits of health care organisations adopting a broad perspective on their social purpose: being willing to apply their skills to the most pressing health care or broader problems facing their communities, even when that leads them far outside their own institutional walls. Indeed, it offers a particularly ambitious objective for consideration: the objective of using the skills and resources of health care to address inequality and achieve social justice. This is what appears to have allowed Montefiore to see past the hospital boundaries, escape the straitjacket of conventional health care and focus on what mattered to its population.”
