In the latest HSJ supplement, we analyse how personal budgets and electronic patient records can help to integrate health and social care

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The thorny issue of how personal health budgets will work in practice is being tackled by an e-commerce platform that promises an easier way for the public to spend, as Daloni Carlisle explains in the first chapter.

Selected care homes which are accessing patient records via TPP’s SystmOne are discovering the power of easier, joined up communications, writes Jennifer Taylor in the second article.