Integrated Care & Social Care

Milton Keynes, Bedford and Luton CCGs plan to merge

20.04.18: NHS bosses have plans to merge the CCGs of Milton Keynes, Bedford and Luton in a move which would see the three areas’ health bodies heavily integrated. The move would also mean a single accountable officer and financial officer would...

Leaders say NHS long-term settlement must include social care

18.04.18: The long-term funding settlement announced by the prime minister should include both the NHS and social care, according to a poll by NHS Confederation. The poll of NHS Confederation members found that 85% of respondents (144) thought that the l...

NHSCC and LGA launch joint tool to support integrated commissioning

13.04.18: A new tool for CCGs and councils to support improving outcomes through integrated commissioning has been unveiled yesterday. The ‘Integrated commissioning for better outcomes framework 2018’ (ICBO) has been developed from the &lsquo...

STPs to receive £760m capital funding to transform buildings and services

28.03.18: The government is to invest £760m in modernising and transforming the NHS’ buildings and services ahead of the health service’s 70th birthday in July. Announced by Jeremy Hunt today, the investment is the biggest of its ki...

Dickson: ‘New approach’ needed to pay for health and social care

12.03.18: The NHS cannot go on as it is, the NHS Confederation has warned. Speaking ahead of tomorrow’s Spring Statement, Niall Dickson, chief executive of NHS Confederation, said that the there is an opportunity for the chancellor to “signal...

Existing schemes prove strong ties between NHS and councils ‘would change everything’

22.02.18: The chance to build a strong partnership between the NHS and local government to the benefit of communities is “the greatest opportunity in 70 years” and would “change everything,” top NHS England leaders have claimed. ...

Health creation is here to stay

09.02.18: NHE’s Sacha Rowlands speaks to Michael Macdonnell, NHS England’s national director for transforming health systems, about the value of health creation when designing strong sustainability and transformation parnerships (STPs). M...

Welsh NHS to get £100m Transformation Fund aimed at ‘driving forward integration’

07.02.18: The NHS in Wales will benefit from a new £100m fund announced by the national assembly today. Money from the Transformation Fund will be targeted at making changes to the overall systems of health and care in Wales, rather than focusi...

NNHSA: Calling for a new focus on wellness

07.02.18: Dr Brian Fisher MBE, vice-chair of the New NHS Alliance (NNHSA), looks back at the organisation’s action summit – an event known for generating disruptive ideas that are catalysts for real change. On 6 December 2017, the NNHSA h...

Integrated health: how do the case studies stack up?

02.02.18: NHE’s Seamus McDonnell explores the successes and challenges of different models of care integration currently taking place across the UK. Integrating healthcare services has been a hot-button issue in the UK for a number of years bec...

Greater Nottingham ACS: Taking care of something precious

31.01.18: Dr Stephen Shortt, GP and clinical lead for developing an accountable care system in Greater Nottingham, talks about the collective work to join up health and social care in the region. Any work to transform the NHS must begin with an hones...

Hidden in plain sight: Rob Webster on his STP

26.01.18: The strategy to join up mental, physical and social care has been bearing fruit beyond just the sustainability and transformation of the health service, says Rob Webster, chief executive of South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS FT, and leader of...

Digging the foundations for better population health

24.01.18: Unstable homes cost the NHS billions, whilst good housing schemes can relieve pressure from health services. It’s time health and housing started talking, says David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation. Housing-rel...

Duncan Selbie: A step on the journey to population health

24.01.18: The NHS plays a part in the country’s wellness – but it’s far from being all that matters. Duncan Selbie, chief executive of Public Health England (PHE), lays bare to NHE’s Luana Salles his views on what truly matters to...

What reliability means to healthcare

24.01.18: SPONSORED INTERVIEW H.E. Dr Bandar Abdulmohsen Al Knawy, president of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and chief executive of the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA), talks to NHE’s Luana Salles about...