NHS Confederation -
Following the Hewitt review recommendation to consider alternative payment mechanisms within the health system, this discussion paper explores examples of international and domestic payment mechanisms. The paper is intended to support further discussion and debate and to inform future policy-making to support integration.
Department of Health and Social Care -
This report provides a response to the House of Lords committee report, Patients at the centre: integrating primary and community care, published on 15 December 2023. This is the government’s response to the committee’s recommendations contained in the report which explored how integrating services could address the challenges facing primary and community care.
National Children's Bureau -
This report finds inconsistency in addressing the needs of babies, children and young people in local health plans highlights the need for stronger guidance from national government. It analysed strategies and plans produced by integrated care systems (ICSs), and how well they reflected different aspects of children’s health. It sheds light on the first year of the new ICSs and also acknowledges the work being developed in the challenging context of increased demand and stretched budgets. It finds that few ICSs consider integration with other key services in children’s lives - such as education settings and children’s social care.
Department of Health and Social Care -
This guidance (produced together with the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) is for staff in care transfer hubs and others involved in planning discharge of patients (including NHS, local authority, housing and other partners). It includes examples of best practice, including step by step guides and example pathways, which can be adapted to suit local practices, for discharging patients: at risk of or experiencing homelessness; with safeguarding concerns; and with no recourse to public funds (NRPF).
NHS Confederation -
In response to the changing health and care system, primary care providers are coming together within systems to form collaboratives. These collaboratives are supporting integrated care systems’ strategic objectives and creating a voice for primary care at system level. This briefing explores the role of primary care provider collaboratives in detail.
Health Foundation -
Primary care networks (PCNs) are a major vehicle for government investment in general practice, worth £2.4bn in 2023/24. However this research shows that poorer areas in England are missing out on funding and additional primary care staff because the greater health needs of their populations are not adequately taken into account by current funding arrangements.
NHS Confederation -
This paper captures the learning from a masterclass series, delivered jointly by the NHS Confederation and Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, on how integrated care systems and industry can work better together. It was developed, researched and written by both organisations.
International Foundation for Integrated Care -
The International Foundation for Integrated Care conducted its second annual survey on integrated care, with a specific emphasis on collecting the experiences of their network regarding how coordinated and continuous care is today in different contexts, countries and from various stakeholder viewpoints. This report provides an overview of the survey findings.
NHS Confederation -
NHS England has outlined plans to develop an improvement approach - NHS IMPACT - to support continuous improvement. There are also ambitions for integrated care systems (ICSs) to become ‘self-improving systems’. This report, written and researched by Sir Chris Ham and jointly commissioned by the NHS Confederation, the Health Foundation and the Q community, reviews the experience of a number of ICSs identified as being at the forefront of this work, focusing on the approaches they have taken and the results achieved.
The King's Fund -
The Healthy Communities Together programme – funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder in the UK – has been running since 2020. The programme works in five areas of England to develop partnerships between local statutory and voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations that work to improve the health and wellbeing of local communities. This long read examines a recurring theme in the work of these partnerships – how to address power imbalances.