Editorial What are the principles that underpin integrated care?

In previous editorials, it has been argued that the study of integrated care has focused perhaps overmuch on understanding the complex and multi-dimensional nat-ure of integrated care as a process and less on its role as a ‘movement for change ’ in terms of fundamen-tally challenging the current and future design of care systems [1]. For example, whilst it is commonly per-ceived that integrated care should be fundamentally person-centred (i.e. that practical approaches to inte-grated care should be characterised by services that are responsive to people's holistic needs), it is rare to listen to those who think integrated care should also involve people and communities as co-producers of care [2]. Another growing debate is whether disease-specifi