In brief
Featuring Professor Steve Field and Dr Dana Safran, this conference looked at US models of integrated care and provided lessons for NHS commissioners and providers on incentivising integration to improve quality and reduce costs.
You can catch up with the main sessions below or download all of the presentations from the programme tab above.
Steve Field: NHS Future Forum report on integrated care
Steve Field, GP and Chair of the NHS Future Forum, gives an overview of the Forum's recent report on integrated care.
Panel debate: How can policy support better models of health care delivery?
Steve Field (NHS Future Forum), Rebecca Rosen (Nuffield Trust), Michael Dixon (NHS Alliance), Paul Zollinger-Read (The King's Fund) and Chris Ham (The King's Fund) contribute to the integrated care debate.
Dana Safran: What can the NHS learn from the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC)?
Dana Safran, Senior Vice President, Performance Measurement and Improvement, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, explains what the AQC is and how it has helped address health care spending whilst improving quality.
Hugh Reeve: How is the NHS in Cumbria adapting to the lessons from the AQC?
Hugh Reeve draws on the lessons that can be learnt from the Alternative Quality Contract and shares how Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group have started to put those lessons into practice.
Martin McShane: Driving quality up with integration
Martin McShane, Director of Commissioning Development and QIPP, NHS Lincolnshire PCT Cluster, shares the key integrated care lessons he learnt from the USA and how these can be applied to the NHS.
Katrina Percy: Working with partners to deliver high quality health and social care services
Katrina Percy, Chief Executive of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, talks about the health system in Hampshire and the key elements of Southern Health’s integrated care strategy.
Daniel Elkeles: Making the business case for integrated working
Daniel Elkeles, Director of Strategy, NHS North West London, discusses how to write a business case for integrated care in the current financial climate.
Programme
Session one
Welcome and introduction
Professor Chris Ham, Chief Executive, The King's Fund
- What can the NHS learn from the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC)?
Dr Dana Gelb Safran, Senior Vice President, Performance Measurement and Improvement, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Download Dana's presentation: Advancing the twin goals of improving health care quality while slowing spending growth: The Alternative Quality Contract (AQC) (833 kb)![[pdf]](http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/display_images/document_icons/pdf.gif)
- How is the NHS in Cumbria adapting to the lessons from AQC?
Dr Hugh Reeve, Chair, Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group
Download Hugh's presentation: How the NHS in Cumbria is drawing on lessons from the Alternative Quality Contract (915 kb) - Questions and discussion
Session two
Welcome back
Dr Nick Goodwin, Senior Fellow, Policy, The King's Fund
- Driving quality up with integration
Martin McShane, Director of Commissioning Development and QIPP, NHS Lincolnshire PCT Cluster
Download Martin's presentation: Driving quality through integrated care (947 kb) - Can competition and integration co-exist in a reformed NHS?
Loraine Hawkins, Health Systems Consultant
Download Loraine's presentation: Can competition and integration co-exist in a reformed NHS? (74 kb) - How innovative payment systems are incentivising integrated care
Dr Yi Mien Koh, Chief Executive, Whittington Health
Download Yi Mien Koh's presentation: Incentivising integration (324 kb) - Questions and discussion
Session three
Welcome back
Claire Perry, Visiting Senior Fellow, The King's Fund
- Working with partners to deliver high quality health and social care services
Katrina Percy, Chief Executive, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Download Katrina's presentation: Transforming community services in Hampshire - developing an integrated care system (370 kb) - Making the business case for integrated working
Daniel Elkeles, Director of Strategy, NHS NW London
Download Daniel's presentation: Integrated care in North West London (721 kb) - Creating a new business model for Foundation Trusts: working towards a single approach to commissioning intermediate tier services
Chris Dowse, Director for Transition, Calderdale and Mid Yorkshire Health Economy FT Programme
Download Chris's presentation: Calderdale: Integrating intermediate tier services (714 kb) - Commissioning for populations: using programme budgets and shared decision-making to deliver integrated care
Anne Browne, Co-Director, Pennine MSK Partnership
Download Anne's presentation: Pennine MSK: Development of integrated teams and programme budgets (104 kb)
Dr Steve Laitner, Associate Medical Director, NHS East of England
Download Steve's presentation: Whole pathways, whole patients, whole systems (607 kb) - Questions and discussion
Session four
Welcome back
Chair: Paul Zollinger-Read, Medical Director for Primary Care, The King's Fund
- Keynote address: How can national policy support the emergence of better models of healthcare delivery?
Professor Steve Field CBE, GP and Chair, The NHS Future Forum - Panel discussion:
Professor Stephen Field, GP and Chair, NHS Future Forum
Dr Michael Dixon, GP and Chair, NHS Alliance
Dr Rebecca Rosen, GP and Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield Trust - Closing comments and summary
Professor Chris Ham, Chief Executive, The King's Fund
