Health Management and Policy Alert

Interoperability is more than technology: the role of culture and leadership in joined-up care

The King's Fund -
Digital technologies can enable better collaboration between health and care partners, but what's needed to progress interoperability in an integrated care system? Our new report looks at the role of relationships and technology, and considers the widers enablers needed to truly join up services.

• Report
• The King's Fund - publications

People first: a response from health and care leaders to the urgent and emergency care system crisis

Care Quality Commission (CQC) -
This resource was designed and developed: using outcomes from CQC's urgent and emergency care workshop, held in May 2022; and by members of the CQC National Emergency Medicine Specialist Advisor Forum. It recognises the unscheduled care pathway as a continuum, with solutions required across the artificial divides between primary, secondary, community and social care. It aims to: support the design of person-centred urgent and emergency care services; and encourage innovation across integrated care systems.

• Report
• Care Quality Commission - publications

 

Building better health: what are the estate development and management opportunities presented by integrated care systems?

Good Governance Institute - 

In July 2022, Good Governance Institute and Primary Health Properties hosted a roundtable discussion to look at the opportunities for estates in integrated care to drive reform, inspire innovation and enable improvement. This long read summarises the discussion that focused on ways in which developing or repurposing NHS estate can enable co-location and greater integration of health and care services.

• Long read

Realising the benefits of provider collaboratives

NHS Providers - 

NHS trusts will play a critical role in delivering the key purposes of integrated care systems, often through partnership arrangements that will act as delivery vehicles within ICSs including provider collaboratives, place-based partnerships and neighbourhood multi-disciplinary teams. This briefing: provides a brief overview of how provider collaboratives are developing across England; illustrates some of the emerging benefits that collaboratives are working to realise; explores how trust leaders see the role of provider collaboratives developing within ICSs; and identifies some key enablers and risks trust boards need to consider.

• Briefing
• More detail

Adult social care provider partnerships in integrated care systems

Care Provider Alliance (CPA) -

This guide for adult social care providers concerns the opportunities integrated care systems (ICSs) provide for partnership working between health and social care. ICSs are partnerships between health and care organisations, coming together to collectively plan and deliver health and care to meet the needs of their population. This guide has been developed with input and support from NHS England and is designed to help adult social care providers understand ICS and, at the same time, help ICSs to have a better understanding of the value of the full participation and engagement from adult social care providers.

• Guide 
• CPA guidance and briefings

RightCare stroke toolkit

NHS England - 

This toolkit provides integrated stroke delivery networks (ISDNs) and local stroke services with key actions to guide service improvement in the following pathway specific and across pathway system improvement priority areas: health inequalities; prevention; TIA management; pre-hospital; hyper acute and acute care; rehabilitation and life after stroke; workforce; medicines optimisation; and technology.

• Toolkit
• More detail

How to make change happen in general practice

The King's Fund -
The growing crisis facing general practice, where demand is outstripping available workforce, means that as integrated care systems take on responsibility for NHS resources, understanding how to make change happen in general practice is vital.

• The King's Fund - publications

A guide to the Health and Care Act 2022

NHS Providers -
This briefing sets out an overview of proposals and a summary of the key parts of the Bill. It picks out the main provisions relevant to providers and systems and looks at the secondary legislation that will flow from the Act.

• NHS Providers - publications

Health overview and scrutiny committee principles

Department of Health and Social Care -
In advance of the statutory guidance on the Secretary of State’s new powers in relation to service reconfigurations, this document sets out the expectations of the Department of Health and Social Care, the Local Government Association, and the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny on how integrated care boards and integrated care partnerships and local authority health overview and scrutiny committee arrangements should work together to ensure that new statutory system-level bodies are locally accountable to their communities.

• Guidance
• Department of Health and Social Care - publications

Guidance on the preparation of integrated care strategies

Department of Health and Social Care -
This guidance is aimed at integrated care partnerships. This document contains: an introduction, two sections of statutory guidance on the preparation of the integrated care strategy including involvement and content, a section of non-statutory guidance relating to the publication, and a review of the integrated care strategy.

• Guidance
• Department of Health and Social Care - publications