Integrated Care & Social Care

Councils must give STPs democratic legitimacy to make effective change

15.06.17: Local authorities must be “hard wired” into the governance and practical arrangements of sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) in order to give them democratic legitimacy to deliver effective local change. Accord...

First signals of Manchester STP impact due next year as LCOs take root

09.06.17: Greater Manchester’s health and social care system will start, from this year and into the next, to really see service changes materialise before the first signals of the impact of devolution emerge at the back end of next year, one of the...

Doctors call for ‘declutter’ of ineffective integration initiatives

31.05.17: The NHS requires a “radical rethink” to simplify and fix the increasingly complicated healthcare landscape in the UK, a group of influential doctors has this week stated. The government has also been told to form a working group...

Think tanks welcome Tory cap on social care, but questions remain

24.05.17: Theresa May’s announcement that a potential cap on social care costs would be consulted on as part of a green paper has been welcomed by two leading think tanks. At the announcement of the Conservative manifesto last week, it was reve...

STPs a ‘workaround’ for organisational flaws in health and social care

10.05.17: STPs represent a ‘workaround’ to serious deficiencies in the organisation of the health and social care system, a trustee from the King’s Fund has stated. Speaking at the think-tank’s leadership and management summit...

Dixon: The jury is out on ‘totally aspirational’ STPs

05.05.17: Sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) have been described as “totally aspirational” and, at the moment, the jury is out on them, according to the chair of the College of Medicine. Speaking during a panel session...

STPs will not succeed where BCF has failed, warn MPs

28.04.17: MPs have slammed the government for the failure of the Better Care Fund (BCF) to achieve any of its objectives, arguing that they are unconvinced that STP planning could succeed where the BCF had failed in integrating health and social care serv...

CSU commissioned to draw up bespoke STP integration reports by May

05.04.17: NHS England has instructed a Commissioning Support Unit to draw up bespoke reports for each of the 44 STP footprints in England to set out advise how savings can be made through better integration of mental and physical health services, NHE has...

Better connection needed between STPs and BCF, argues ADASS

20.03.17: While some sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) have considered the financial impact on social care in the changing landscape, many have not, Grainne Siggins, national policy lead & trustee at the Association of Directors of Adult...

Integrated ‘streaming’ service to be introduced in all hospitals by Christmas

16.03.17: NHS England has set a goal for all hospitals with an A&E department in England to have a “comprehensive front door streaming” service in place by next Christmas. The streaming service aims to make care more efficient and tak...

STPs cannot succeed without fresh social care Budget cash, says Health Foundation

03.03.17: STPs cannot hope to succeed unless the adult social care funding gap of £2bn is addressed, a report released today by major charity the Health Foundation has revealed. The briefing analysed STP proposals to reform health and social ca...

CQC reform ‘promising, but not enough’ to save failing social care

24.02.17: The Patients Association has stated that reports to change the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC’s) role to regulate council management of social care are “promising, but not enough” to save a system in crisis. Accordin...

NAO: No compelling evidence that health integration really works

08.02.17: The government’s plan to integrate health and social care services across England by 2020 is at “significant risk” due to progress being slower and less successful than had been hoped, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned...

Committee chairs urge PM to reach agreement on health and social care funding

06.01.17: Three House of Commons select committee chairs have urged the prime minister, Theresa May, to reach a cross-party agreement on the future of health and social care funding in a letter sent today. The letter, sent by the chairs of the Health...

May rejects initial cross-party involvement in social care review

23.12.16: A cross-party commission must be established to look at how to deliver a sustainable care system, the chair of the Health Select Committee has told Theresa May following the prime minister’s appearance before the Liaison Committee earlier...