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| | From the Ground Up - Building Community Partnerships | | | | | | | This timely new report and accompanying practitioners' guide published by the government's LIFT Company, Community Health Partnerships (CHP), and supported by the Integrated Care Network, aims to support service commissioners; including those involved in planning, service delivery, finance and asset management as well as health and local government partnerships, who are looking to develop integrated care services and infrastructure. |
| | | | | Written by the Institute of Public Care (IPC) at Oxford Brookes University, the report:
•Offers an overview of the policy framework for integration in England.
•Presents an outline of the approach to integration taken by four examples of different types of integrated care services (Salford, Staffordshire, Norfolk and Oxfordshire).
•Analyses the key elements of success in integrating care.
•Presents a model of design and delivery for managers to consider in relation to their own services, and
•Concludes with a range of hints and tips based on the research undertaken.
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| | | | Drawing on IPC's model, CHP and ICN have also developed a timely 3 part, 'easy to read', guide. This sets our a practical approach to integrating services and infrastructure which includes a framework for service design and a checklist of activities to help local managers plan services in the future. ADD LINKS
There is a also a wallchart for project management purposes available to download from ICN's and CHP's websites
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| | In the News | | | | | | The 2010-2011 operating framework for the NHS was launched in December. This refers to the increasing importance of integration and makes specific reference to integrated working within the NHS and wider care economy. In particular, emphasising more user-focussed integrated care pathways to deliver better outcomes and transform community services. |
| | | | The Department of Health has also introduced a five-year plan to reshape the NHS to meet the challenge of delivering high quality health care in a tough financial environment. The report describes practical measures to meet the demands of an aging population and the increased prevalence of lifestyle diseases. |
| | | | The new website showcasing the DH's Integrated Care Pilots has plenty to offer. Have a look at the improvements made watch the short film introducing the programme on the DH website |
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| | Resources | | | | | | New report on joint finance and pooled budgets |
| This report from the Audit Commission, Means to an end: Joint financing across health and social care, provides a useful overview of pooled budgeting, joint finance and commissioning arrangements. It makes a number of suggestions for NHS organisations and councils to get better value from available resources and improve services and outcomes for users |
| | | | | Integrated Care Pathways - redesigning your system |
| This new document describes the approach undertaken in creating a generic Integrated Care and Support Planning process, reflecting the broader business process re-design and including how Common Assessment Framework messaging would be used to support this. |
| | | | | Nuffield Trust seminars on integration - Removing the policy barriers |
| The Nuffield Trust have been running a series of seminars on integrated care. A summary briefing from the first of these led by Peter Colclough from Torbay is now available at via the link below |
| | | | | Connected Care - Benefit Realisation |
| Turning Point's Connected Care, community-led commissioning project, has shown that integrated approaches are not only better for the service user, but lead to big cost efficiencies and savings for commissioners. In particular, it cites that early intervention and prevention can realise significant financial benefits. For example, studies have illustrated that integrated early intervention programmes can generate resource savings of up to £2.65 for every £1 spent. |
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