Health Management and Policy Alert

Shifting the centre of gravity: making place-based, person-centred health and care a reality

Local Government Association -
The examples in this report aim to show what can be achieved by system leaders and staff from local government, the NHS, the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, and service user and carer groups working together to improve health and deliver person-centred care.

• Report
• Local Government Association - publications

Clinical engagement and collaboration: Newcastle Gateshead CCG

NHS Clinical Commissioners - 

The Core Cities Network is a peer-led network representing clinical commissioning groups from the eight core cities in England outside London – Nottingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, Newcastle, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. This case study explores the value of clinical engagement and collaboration, as well as the challenges and benefits from working across different geographies.

• Case study
• Core Cities Network

How should health policy respond to the growing challenge of multimorbidity?

University of Bristol - 

There is growing awareness internationally of the increasing number of people living with multiple long-term health conditions, known as multimorbidity. Health services, including the NHS, need to adapt to address this challenge. This policy report discusses the issue of multimorbidity, and offers a summary of recommendations.

• Report
• Press release

How should health policy respond to the growing challenge of multimorbidity?

University of Bristol - 
There is growing awareness internationally of the increasing number of people living with multiple long-term health conditions, known as multimorbidity. Health services, including the NHS, need to adapt to address this challenge. This policy report discusses the issue of multimorbidity, and offers a summary of recommendations.

• Report
• Press release

Interface between health and adult social care

House of Commons Public Accounts Committee -
This report outlines the widespread consensus that integration and joint working is the right way forward for the health and social care system to deliver the best and most effective outcomes for people and their families. However, it concludes that the Government still lacks an effective overall strategy or plan to achieve its long-held aim to integrate these two sectors.

• Report
• House of Commons Public Accounts Committee - news

Open consultation: directions for integrated care providers (ICPs)

Department of Health and Social Care -
This consultation is aimed at GPs and others involved in the provision of primary medical services. It set outs the draft directions for those providing primary care as part of an ICP and asks if the draft provisions for a new ICP contract are effective and sufficient, and whether there are any other impacts the government should be aware of. The closing date for comments is 7 December 2018.

• Consultation
• Department of Health and Social Care - consultations

A year of integrated care systems: reviewing the journey so far

The King's Fund -
Integrated care systems represent a fundamental and far-reaching change in how the NHS works across different services and with external partners. This report is based on interviews with eight of the 'first wave' integrated care systems to understand how they are developing and to identify lessons for local systems and national policy-makers.

• Report
• Summary report
• The King's Fund - publications

Government response to the recommendations of the Health and Social Care Committee’s inquiry into ‘Integrated care: organisations, partnerships and systems’

Department of Health and Social Care -
This is a joint response reflecting the views of the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England, NHS Improvement, the Care Quality Commission and Health Education England. It sets out how the government intends to address the committee’s recommendations as part of the long-term plan for the NHS.

• Report
• Department of Health and Social Care - publications

Joined-up listening: integrated care and patient insight

The King's Fund -
This article articulates the opportunity that integrated care presents for using insight from people and populations to design services that meet their needs and reflect their priorities. This includes breaking down siloes within and between organisations to listen to what patients are saying across their entire pathway of care.

• Article

Sustainability and transformation partnerships

Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) - 
This briefing, aimed at STPs, focuses on the improvements in quality of care that pharmacists and their teams bring to care home residents, care home providers and the NHS. It highlights how pharmacists in care homes can improve medicines safety, reduce admissions to hospital and support end of life care.

• Briefing
• Press release