Improving and integrating care for people with long-term conditions
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- Published: 09.02.11
- Updated: 28.02.11
The King's Fund has a longstanding commitment to improving the way that care is provided to those with complex and long-term conditions. We are particularly interested in how better integrating care across professional and organisational boundaries can deliver improved outcomes and patient experience. We will work with policy-makers, providers, commissioners and user groups to examine the barriers and incentives to delivering better co-ordinated and integrated health care.
In 2011 we will:
- undertake research into the costs and consequences of different models of managing long-term conditions, including case management and supported self-care
- continue to build the evidence base for telehealth and telecare by running a knowledge-based action network and a major international conference in March 2011
- initiate work examining the impact of co-morbidity on health and social care, and the potential role that public health can play in managing these
- explore how integration of health and social care can add value to the delivery of services and the models of integrated care that might support this
- share learning from examples of integrated care systems internationally.
