Social work in Integrated care.

Abstract

In the first of three articles we shared our understanding of integrated care and traced the evolution ofinterprofessional learning from organic to strategic and systemic, prepared to play its part in theimplementation of integrated care. In this third article, joined by Lee-Ann Fenge, we focus on the roleof the social worker in integrating care and clarifying their roles in collaboration with other professions.We distinguish between social work as a profession and social care as a field of practice, which includesmany professions as well as other occupations. We share the literature on where social work plays a rolein integrated care and ask questions about the lack of interprofessional education involving socialworkers and without whom integrated care cannot succeed