Rebooting health and social care integration

"This report is an attempt to explain why health and social care integration should be the catalyst to ‘build it around the passenger’. It focuses on making it work for the individual, not creating a more perfect system for professionals."

Rebooting health and social care integration: An agenda for more person centred care
L Booth-Smith
Localis
July 2017

Click here to read the report.

MyNHS - greater transparency for better health and care

"The MyNHS site is a single place where health and care organisations, as well as the public, can compare the performance of services over a range of measures, at both local and national level."

MyNHS - greater transparency for better health and care: MyNHS planning 2015-2017
Department of Health, Public Health England, NHS England
February 2015

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Integrated health and social care in England

"The paper offers an overview of the current call for integrated health and social care services in England, the rationale behind the push for integration, the facilitators and barriers to this way of working, and the related workforce and funding issues."

Integrated health and social care in England: the story so far
Royal College of Nursing
May 2014

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NHS Right Care videos on commissioning

NHS Right Care has created four new videos to support commissioning:

1. Integrating Hub/Prime Vendor
2. Commissioning for Value Deep Dives
3. Value Based Guidance for Elective Surgery
4. Data Tools for Commissioners and Surgeons

Access the four videos via the NHS Right Care Resource Centre.

Is integration or fragmentation the starting point to improve prevention?

"Initiatives to promote integration are being introduced at all levels of the system, with a patient experience based narrative setting the standard against which success should be judged."

Is integration or fragmentation the starting point to improve prevention? Policy Paper 17
R Miller
Health Services Management Centre
January 2014

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Service transformation: Lessons from mental health

"Simply moving the location of care is not good enough. New evidence-based models of care are useful, but choice of model should be driven by local need, have a clear objective and be properly evaluated."

Service transformation: Lessons from mental health
H Gilburt, E Peck, B Ashton, N Edwards, C Naylor
The King's Fund
February 2014

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Delivering integrated care and support

"The achievement of personal outcomes for individuals should be the focus of integrated care and support."

Delivering integrated care and support
A Petch
Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services
February 2014

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Innovations in global mental health

"Identify and treat mental disorders early — for example, by delivering school-based interventions for childhood mental disorders."

Transforming lives, enhancing communities - innovations in global mental health
V Patel, S Saxena
New England Journal of Medicine, 2014, 370:498-501

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Closing the gap: priorities for essential change in mental health

"High-quality mental health services with an emphasis on recovery should be commissioned in all areas, reflecting local need."

Closing the gap: priorities for essential change in mental health
Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnership Directorate
January 2014

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International trends and initiatives in primary health care

"Evidence is presented from countries perceived as comparable to Australia in terms of the organisation, funding and delivery of primary health care."

International trends and initiatives in primary health care
Research Roundup
Issue 23, August 2012

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Rewiring public services: adult social care and health

"The next phase of development in social care and health services must be towards integration: integrated services are much more likely to improve people’s health and wellbeing in ways which treat them with dignity and respect, and it makes financial sense to get rid of duplication and waste."

Rewiring public services: adult social care and health
Local Government Association
June 2013

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Breaking boundaries: a manifesto for primary care by the NHS Alliance

"This manifesto calls for all of us – patients, professionals, managers and policy makers – to break the boundaries that too often disable people from caring for themselves and prevent clinicians from delivering high quality, cost effective, integrated care with a new focus on health and wellbeing and prevention."

Breaking boundaries: a manifesto for primary care by the NHS Alliance
NHS Alliance
March 2013

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Integration across government

"This report examines how well government identifies and implements opportunities to integrate public services or other programmes."

Integration across government
Cabinet Office and HM Treasury
National Audit Office
March 2013

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Right Care Casebooks - new additions

Right Care compiles local examples of commissioning work in a series of "Right Care Casebooks". Three more of these casebooks have just been added to the series:

1. Somerset community-based self-care support service for adults with persistent pain 
2. What organisation is necessary for commissioners to develop outcomes based contracts?  The COBIC case study
3. Integrated GP led diabetes care in Bexley – The role of ‘an active integrator’ in developing integration in NHS services

International profiles of health care systems, 2012

"Each overview covers health insurance, public and private financing, health system organization, quality of care, health disparities, efficiency and integration, care coordination, use of health information technology, use of evidence-based practice, cost containment, and recent reforms and innovations."

International profiles of health care systems: Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States
The Commonwealth Fund
November 2012

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Competitive integration in the NHS

"Greater integration in healthcare will result in better outcomes for patients and a more seamless patient experience."

All together now: competitive integration in the NHS
H Featherstone, D Skelton, D Prior
Policy Exchange
October 2012

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Interim measures for patient experience at the interfaces between NHS services

"The NHS Future Forum report on Integration recommended that new patient experience measures should be developed to evaluate patients’ experiences across whole journeys of care."

Interim measures for patient experience at the interfaces between NHS services
Department of Health
August 2012

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Health and Social Care Act explained

The Department of Health has prepared a series of factsheets on the Health and Social Care Act 2012, explaining particular topics contained in the Act, including its key themes. There are cases studies of the policy in action and answers to frequently asked questions about the topic.

Access the leaflets here.

Delivering the Information Revolution

"A framework for delivering the Information Revolution."

Delivering the Information Revolution: from vision to reality
SK Patel, S Ash
Public Sector Research Centre
Price Waterhouse Coopers
November 2011

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The quest for efficiency in the English NHS

"A competitive, flexible approach to health care delivery will promote innovation, making it possible to learn from health care providers that adopt diferent approaches to delivery."

Competition, integration and incentives: the quest for efficiency in the English NHS
AM Garber
The Nuffield Trust
December 2011

Read more here.