Category: Integrated Care

Supporting integration through new roles and working across boundaries

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 12, 2016

By The King’s Fund (2016)

This report looks at the evidence on new roles and ways of spanning organisational workforce boundaries to deliver integrated health and social care. Commissioned by NHS Employers and the Local Government Association, it finds increasing focus on roles which facilitate co-ordination and management of care, development of existing roles to increase the skill-mix and enable the provision of more holistic care, and a limited number of truly innovative roles, the most notable being care navigators and community facilitators, enablers or link workers. Given that many of the skills required for integrated care already exist within the workforce, it suggests the central question is how to use those skills more effectively to support boundary-spanning activities.

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Healthy Settings Integrated Care Licensing Local Government Planning

Supporting integration through new roles and working across boundaries

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date July 1, 2016

By The King’s Fund (2016)

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Commissioning Healthy Settings Integrated Care Licensing Planning Public Health Advice to NHS Commissioners

Options for integrated commissioning: beyond Barker

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date September 7, 2015

By The King’s Fund (2015)

With around 400 separate local organisations each responsible for commissioning different health and social care services, the current organisational landscape is fragmented and unsustainable. Support is growing for a new settlement based on a single ring-fenced budget and a single local commissioner – as recommended by the Independent Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England, chaired by Kate Barker. This report explores the options for implementing that recommendation. It assesses evidence of past joint commissioning attempts, studies the current policy framework and local innovations in integrated budgets and commissioning, and considers which organisation is best place to take on the role of single local commissioner. It draws together findings from a body of work including a survey of existing joint arrangements, current evidence and examples, a seminar with pioneers of integration developments, and a national conference on integrated commissioning.

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Good Practice Health Promotion Healthy Settings Integrated Care Licensing Patient Experience Planning

Examining new options and opportunities for providers of NHS care: The Dalton Review

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date April 29, 2015

By The Dalton Review (2014)

Sir David Dalton has conducted a review for the government on new options for providers of NHS care. The Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust Chief Executive considered issues such as whether local or non-geographical networks of hospitals and services could be brought together under a single leadership team. The review also explores how high-performing NHS organisations might lend their support to providers in difficulty.

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Care of the Elderly Guidance Healthy Settings Integrated Care Licensing Long-Term Conditions Planning

Integrated care licence condition: guidance for providers of NHS-funded services

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date April 29, 2015

By Monitor (2015)

This guidance is for licensed providers of NHS-funded services in England and NHS trusts and it explains what is expected of NHS providers in relation to the integrated care licence condition and where Monitor may take action.

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Care of the Elderly Integrated Care Older people

I'm still me….a narrative for coordinated support for older people

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date January 13, 2015

By National Voices (2014)

This document, produced in collaboration with UCLPartners and Age UK, sets out how integrated care and support looks and feels to older people and is written from their point of view. It outlines five themes that older people say are key to coordinated support: independence, community interactions, decision making, care and support and terminology.

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Children General Practice Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Integrated Care Public Health Advice to NHS Commissioners

Opening the door to better healthcare: a snapshot of innovations in primary and first access care for children and young people

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date May 28, 2014

By The National Children’s Bureau (2014)

This report discusses some of the innovations being taken forward by GPs and others to improve children’s access to and experience of primary care. It also includes examples of broader multi-professional collaboration and innovation to ensure that more children with minor ailments are treated in the right place at the right time.

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Care of the Elderly General Practice Guidance Integrated Care Licensing Long-Term Conditions Planning

Transforming primary care: safe, proactive, personalised care for those who need it most

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date May 28, 2014

By Department of Health (2014)

This guidance sets out plans for more proactive, personalised and joined up care, including the Proactive Care Programme, providing the 800,000 patients with the most complex health and care needs with a personal care and support plan; a named accountable GP; a professional to coordinate their care; and same-day telephone consultations. The plan builds on the role of primary care in keeping patients well and independent. It explains how professionals across the healthcare system can work together to transform care to become more proactive and tailored to patients’ individual need.

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Care of the Elderly CVD Healthy Settings Integrated Care Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Long-Term Conditions Patient Experience Respiratory Disease

Accountable care organisations in the United States and England: testing, evaluating and learning what works

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date April 24, 2014

By The King’s Fund (2014)

The health system in England is facing a number of challenges including an ageing population, an increasing number of people with multiple, long-term conditions and a difficult financial climate. To meet these challenges, more integrated approaches to care delivery are needed to improve both the quality of care and patients’ experience. In the United States, ACOs – a group of providers that take responsibility for providing all the care for a given population for a specified period of time – have been developed to provide a more integrated approach to care.This paper describes the different types of ACOs emerging in the United States; presents some early evidence on their performance; assesses the future for ACOs; and discusses the implication of these developments for integrated care initiatives in England.

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Care of the Elderly CVD Integrated Care Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Long-Term Conditions Respiratory Disease

Providing integrated care for older people with complex needs

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date March 3, 2014

By The King’s Fund (2014)

This report synthesises evidence from seven case studies covering Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. It considers similarities and differences of programmes that are successfully delivering integrated care, and identifies lessons for policy-makers and service providers to help them address the challenges ahead.

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