Integrated care summit 2013

About this event

Our annual integrated care summit provided an opportunity to hear about how to deliver co-ordinated care and learn from areas of the UK and abroad that are rolling out innovations in integrated care.

The presentations from this event are available on the presentations tab above.

Catch up with tweets from the summit on our Storify.

Why now?

Unprecedented financial and service pressures facing health and social care cannot be tackled by incremental adjustments to existing services and ways of working. A step change is needed given the prospect that public services face a decade of austerity in which budgets will either not increase (in the case of the NHS) or face further cuts (in the case of social care). This requires a commitment to whole system working involving not only health and social care but also other services that influence the health and wellbeing of communities. With the challenge of an ageing population where more people are living with multiple long-term conditions, and a fragmented service where the needs of the patient often come second to the system, now is the time for the NHS and their community partners to make a reality of integrated care.