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…

Payment reform, purchaser and provider decisions and the performance of emergency healthcare systems: the case of blended payment in the English NHS  – Centre for Health Economics  This paper constitutes the first and foundational output of the ESHCRU2 project 3 – Analysis of purcher-provider contracts: modelling risk sharing and incentive implications. This…

Patient-initiated follow-up: will it free up capacity in outpatient care? – Nuffield Trust With the number of outpatient hospital appointments in England recently as high as 125 million per year and a huge elective care backlog following the Covid-19 pandemic, patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU) on NHS outpatient appointments has been touted…

Towards a new partnership between disabled people and health and care services: getting our voices heard – The King’s Fund Disabled people face poorer experiences of – and worse access to – health and care services than people who aren’t disabled and these health inequalities have been exacerbated by the…