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Supporting leaders to implement integrated care and population health
If you are part of a leadership team working across a health system to deliver integrated care or improve population health, we can help you by providing consultancy advice and support. Our starting point is the recognition that delivering change is never easy, especially when it involves working across systems of care.
What does the future hold for integrated care systems? | The King's Fund
Integrated care systems, as they were re-branded in updated planning guidance published recently by NHS England, bring together NHS commissioners, providers and local authorities to plan how to improve health and care for the populations they serve. For the organisations involved in these systems, lines of accountability remain unchanged. NHS organisations continue to look upwards to NHS England and NHS Improvement and local authorities look outwards to their communities.
Making sense of accountable care | The King's Fund
Accountable care is not a panacea and unless implemented with skill it will not deliver the improvements in health and care envisaged in the Forward View. The King's Fund believes that accountable care should be supported because it offers the best hope for the NHS and its partners to provide the integrated health and care services required to meet the needs of the growing and ageing population.
‘You need a whole system to work for the whole system to work’
Recently, the Fund hosted a visit by leaders of the health system in Canterbury, New Zealand. In this guest blog – the second of three drawing on experiences shared during the visit – David Meates, Chief Executive of the Canterbury District Health Board, explains how organisations within the Canterbury health system have moved from playing the ‘blame game’ to working together to provide the best possible care for the local population.
Whole-system transformation needs whole-system engagement
David Meates, Chief Executive of Canterbury District Health Board, talks of creating a ‘social movement’ when he recalls how the health system undertook transformation. The social movement focused initially on the 19,000 staff working in the system either as direct employees or employed by organisations delivering care under contract to the board. Staff were closely involved in creating a vision for the future and leading work to translate it into practice.
Accountable care organisations (ACOs) explained | The King's Fund
Delivering high-quality care in the community and people’s homes is a priority for ACOs in the United States – as it is for emerging ACOs in England. This means understanding the population served and stratifying that population according to need and health risk. People at high risk of hospital admission may receive support from case managers and others to help them live at home. People with long-term conditions will often receive targeted support to help them manage their health.
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