National Care Service - national systems of social care in Nordic and Scandinavian countries: learning and evidence review

Footnotes

1. Definition of a rapid review - "A rapid review is a form of knowledge synthesis that accelerates the process of conducting a traditional systematic review through streamlining or omitting specific methods to produce evidence for stakeholders in a resource-efficient manner" (Cochrane Rapid Reviews: Interim Guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group, 2020).

2. key informants include personnel such as health and social care professionals, care managers, social workers and paid carers.

3. The Norrtaelje model is a Swedish initiative that transformed the funding and organisation of health and social care in order to better integrate care for older people with complex needs. Norrtaelje is a local authority area situated in the north of Stockholm region, with a population of around 56,000 people, which would be similar to a small Local Authority region in Scotland.

4. As cited by The Grey Literature Report, 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."

5. For consistency, the term "social care" is used throughout this report to replace terms used to describe social care in other countries (such as long-term care).

6. 'No established set of indicators for measuring integrated care is currently available, and indicators used can be disease and/or non-disease specific. Overall, there is a strong need for international comparable integrated care indicators to highlight where significant variations between countries (or regions) exist, and to consequently call for their explanation and possible filling' (Borgermans).²⁸