NB: this event is FREE and available to attend in-person at the Players Lounge at Ashton Gate Stadium, OR virtually via Zoom. Please reserve your place on the links below.
On 2nd March we'll open our doors to an exclusive Care & Support West symposium on the future of Integrated Care Systems and Integrated Care Partnerships. Taking place over one half-day. Download the event flyer and agenda here.
Our Speakers
The National Picture - Chris Naylor, The King’s Fund
The Council response - Hugh Evans, Bristol City Council
The Provider Position - Oona Goldsworthy, National Care Forum
The CCG Challenge - Deborah El-Sayed, NHS BNSSG
ICP Development Challenge - Ros Cox, Integrated Care Partnership Bristol
To the ICS and beyond - Jeff Farrar, Integrated Care System for Bristol
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Key Issues (The Kings Fund Analysis):
Integrating health and social care has been an objective of national policy for more than three decades but has started to gather pace with the introduction of the Health and Care Bill, which is expected to put integrated care systems (ICSs) on a statutory footing from April 2022. ICSs are intended to promote equal partnership between the NHS and its wider partners, including local authorities and social care.
However, the history of previous attempts at integration suggests there is a risk that the NHS will dominate. Within social care, there is a particular concern among providers that they will be left ‘outside the tent.’ Statutory ICSs will comprise two key bodies – an integrated care board (ICB) and integrated care partnership (ICP).
ICBs will take on the NHS planning functions previously held by clinical commissioning groups. Each ICB will produce a five-year plan for how NHS services will be delivered to meet local needs and this plan must take account of an integrated care strategy, setting out how the wider health needs of the local population should be met.
This wider strategy will be developed by the second key body – the ICP. ICPs are statutory committees bringing together the NHS, local authorities and other organisations, including those from social care, as equal partners to focus more widely on health, public health and social care.
The work outlined above has some key messages for adult social care and its partners in ICSs:
ICSs offer real potential for partnership with the NHS and other sectors.
ICSs are an opportunity to develop genuinely joined-up, personalised care.
There is a need for clarity about structures and systems…
…but leadership and culture are critical.
Resources are a key challenge so making the best use of them is essential.
It’s important to assess and measure the right things.
