The aim of the integration was to provide better access for the defined population through both clinical and
organisational integration, as outlined by Shortell et al, with one point of entry to the system. It would enable
clinicians from both community and acute areas to share the medical record, reducing the capacity for error.
Referrals could be managed by providers, reducing the need for patients to have a comprehensive knowledge
of the system through which they had to navigate. Most of all, it would enable families to be supported at the
most vulnerable points in their journey by providers who had knowledge of the social and economic factors
involved in the health of their patients rather than just the medical issues.