Health Management and Policy Alert

Principles for assessing and managing risks across integrated care systems

NHS England -
The National Quality Board provides guidance for assessing risks in complex health care scenarios. This document outlines principles for managing quality risks within integrated care systems, particularly in rapidly changing environments. It aims to support the delivery of safe, effective, and personalised care while addressing inequalities across health services.

• Guidance
• NHS England - publications

 

Section 75 call for evidence: summary of responses

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) - 

The DHSC sought views on changes to section 75 of the NHS Act 2006 to increase the use of pooled budgets to support the integration of health and care. This document summarises the responses received. The responses from the call for evidence will inform the DHSC's next steps in the review of section 75 (NHS Act 2006).

• Summary of responses
• More detail

Accelerating Reform Fund 2024 to 2025: grant determination

Department of Health -
The Accelerating Reform Fund provides a total of £42.6 million over the financial years 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025. It supports local authorities, working in integrated care system consortia, to take forward projects that scale innovations in adult social care and improve services for unpaid carers. This is the grant determination for the Adult Social Care Accelerating Reform Fund for 2024 to 2025, outlining funding allocations for the £22.6 million allocated for that year.

• Guidance
• Department of Health - publications

The state of integration at place: exploring how and why place is the 'engine room' of integration

NHS Confederation -
This report details how integration through the places that matter to people can shift the government’s ambitions to prioritise community-centred design and delivery of services into a working reality. It draws on the insights of over 60 leaders across integrated care boards, integrated care partnerships, local NHS services, including acute and primary care, local government and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, and two roundtables with local leaders focused specifically on how a new Labour government can best enable integration at place.

• NHS Confederation - publications

Get Britain Working white paper: what you need to know

NHS Confederation -
To drive forward approaches to tackling economic inactivity and work towards the long-term ambition of an 80 per cent employment rate, the government has published a Get Britain Working white paper, backed by £240 million of investment. The investment includes funding to tackle ill health as the biggest driver of inactivity. As part of this, the government is investing in eight areas across England and Wales, to integrate and improve local work, health and skills support. This will include funding in three of the trailblazer areas for integrated care system accelerators to improve population health outcomes and reduce health-related economic inactivity.

• NHS Confederation - publications

Supporting self-care: an ICS best practice compendium

PAGB - 
This report contains four case studies from Integrated Care Systems that have successfully implemented initiatives to empower their local populations to self-care for minor conditions. It highlights learnings and tips to help other teams to design and implement their own successful self-care initiatives.

• Report
• PAGB - news

Empowering ICBs: a blueprint for fixing the NHS

Bright Blue -

This report offers policy recommendations to strengthen integrated care boards (ICBs) in four areas: the funding of ICBs; performance measurement of ICBs; governance and involvemnt of ICBs; and supporting ICBs that are ‘lighthouses’.

• Report
• Bright Blue - press release

Creating integrated neighbourhood teams: learning from experience

National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) -
This paper is the collective view of the NAPC Leadership and brings together NAPC’s experience of how to make integrated neighbourhood teams work and how to manage the process of change, bringing in evidence from the UK and internationally.

• Report
• NAPC - publications

Unlocking prevention in integrated care systems: a guide to balancing short- and longer-term impact

NHS Confederation - 

This guide explores practical considerations for leaders looking to move forward decisively with the delivery of their strategic prevention agenda by demonstrating impact in the short term. It includes emerging thinking and prompt questions to support leaders in system-level discussions, together with case studies of how system partners are driving forward progress in practice.

• Guide
• More detail

Unlocking prevention in integrated care systems

NHS Confederation - 

This report establishes: what prevention means to people working within integrated care systems; the barriers, enablers and opportunities for prevention within systems; best practice on overcoming those barriers; and the support needed at the national level to progress the prevention agenda through integrated care systems.

• Report
• Alternative format