Health Management and Policy Alert

Developing place-based partnerships: the foundation of effective integrated care systems.

The King's Fund - 
This report considers the potential of place-based partnerships to improve population health and truly support integrated care, and highlights principles to guide their development and the support they might need from regional and national leaders. The King’s Fund reviewed existing evidence and experience on place-based working, explored the development of place-based partnerships within three systems and undertook targeted engagement with local leaders from ICSs, local authorities and voluntary and community sector organisations. This research highlights the potential role of place-based partnerships in improving health and wellbeing and illustrates how these opportunities can be realised.

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Primary care networks and place-based working: addressing health inequalities in a Covid-19 world

The Health Creation Alliance - 
This report provides insights from those working to address health inequalities outside the NHS about how primary care, enabled by primary care networks, might access the breadth of potential solutions that are possible when they work in partnership with their communities and local partners.

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Learning from the community response to Covid-19: how the NHS can support communities to keep people well

The Health Creation Alliance - 
This report considers what all community-facing NHS organisations can learn from the community response to Covid-19. The report outlines practical guidance and recommendations to help build a future where people are at the heart of keeping communities well.

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Integrated care systems explained: making sense of the new NHS structure

NHS Providers -
This glossary aims to explain the acronyms and terminology that are used to describe integrated care systems.

• Glossary
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Integrated care systems explained: making sense of the new NHS structure

NHS Providers - 

Delivering more joined-up care for patients has been a key ambition for the NHS over the past few years. This glossary was developed following NHS Providers' recent virtual workshops, where governors expressed a desire to learn more about the acronyms and terminology that are now commonly used to describe how the NHS structure is evolving.

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The NHS's role in tackling poverty: awareness, action and advocacy

The King's Fund  - 
One of the main drivers behind the creation of the NHS was to protect the poorest in society from being bankrupted by the need to pay for care. But the NHS can do more to mitigate, prevent and reduce poverty. This report sets out what the NHS, as the largest economic institution in the country, needs to maximise its contribution to tackling poverty, within its resources and with its partners.

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How might leadership roles evolve in integrated health and care systems?

Social Care Institute for Excellence - 

This report for the NHS Leadership Academy explores some of the implications of the Long Term Plan and its supporting plans on leadership within local health and care systems, the roles that may emerge over time, and what knowledge, skills and support leaders need in the future. The report provides an overview of research carried out to better understand how leadership roles are changing in the health and social care sector, especially in collaborative and integrated health and care systems.

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The health and social care white paper explained

The King's Fund - 

This long read describes the main proposals of the Department of Health and Social Care's white paper 'Integration and innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all' published on 11 February 2021. It also sets out The King's Fund's initial assessment of the proposals and their implications for the health and care system.

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Future options for housing and care: improving housing that facilitates care and support for older people

Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) - 
This is the first report of the Commission on the Role of Housing in the Future of Care and Support. Co-produced with people with lived experience and senior figures in the health, social care and housing sectors, it aims to provide a short overview of the key issues facing the sector, an initial vision for the future and some preliminary ideas which the Commission believes merit further exploration.

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Looking ahead 2021: reset, partnerships, recovery

Wilmington Healthcare - 
This white paper explores some emerging trends within the UK health care system, some of which will establish some of the future policy that will come to fruition in 2021 and change the NHS landscape.

• Report