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Understanding evidence from earlier integrated health and social care policy initiatives can provide important lessons to inform the development of integrated care systems (ICSs) in this latest round of NHS reform – including expectations for what they can deliver, and by when. The Improvement Analytics Unit examined four of its own long-term evaluations of the impact of the recent vanguard programmes on emergency hospital use, looking at impacts over 4.5–6 years. This long read summarises the key findings from these evaluations and the implications for newly established ICSs.