'Joined-up government' policies have been promoted by the government in the since 1997. To date, there have been few empirical studies of the implementati of these policies. This article presents the results of a study of expenditure on intermediate care in England and highlights tensions...

<title>Abstract</title> This paper presents findings from a study of information technology implementation practices in National Health Service hospitals in England. The results suggest that there is a general direction of travel, which involves the progressive linking together of individual systems, so that...

<title/> ‘Joined-up government’ policies have been promoted by the government in the since 1997. To date, there have been few empirical studies of the implementati of these policies. This article presents the results of a study of expenditure on intermediate care in England and highlights tensions...