Integrated Care – Social Care’s Role in the New Approach

Significant steps have been taken towards the integration of care in England.

In 2016, NHS England divided the country into 44 sustainability and transformation partnerships as part of the Five Year Forward View. They brought together NHS, local authorities and other health and care organisations to collaboratively determine the future of their health and care system.

STPs are now evolving into integrated care systems (ICSs) with a view to better coordinating services and focusing on prevention. This system is backed by the Better Care Fund which requires CCGs and local authorities to enter into pooled budgets arrangements and agree an integrated spending plan.

Unfortunately, the Coronavirus pandemic revealed there is still work to be done on promoting collaboration.

Many social care providers still feel out of the loop, and are struggling to make the right connections with commissioners and their healthcare colleagues.

This session will consider how social care can play a more important role in integration.

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Supporting: The Care Workers Charity

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