Will polyclinics deliver integrated care?

Government policy is driving a fundamental shift of care from hospitals to more community-based settings. There is a growing expectation that this shift will be supported by the development of a network of new facilities in which primary, community and secondary care services are co-located, often referred to as polyclinics.

Will this model improve the quality and accessibility of health care and deliver cost savings? 

Drawing on published information and original research into facilities similar to the polyclinic model in the UK and abroad, Candace Imison will explore both the opportunities and risks in relation to quality of care, accessibility of services and cost.

Given by

Candace Imison, The King’s Fund

Candace Imison is a Visiting Fellow at The King's Fund and Director of Strategy at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. Candace was one of the authors of a recent report from The King's Fund: Under One Roof: Will polyclinics deliver integrated care?

Candace joined the NHS in 1987 and has since held a number of senior management and board level roles with NHS providers and commissioners. She worked on strategy at the Department of Health from 2000-2006 and while there she led work on the configuration of services, future health care trends, workforce, and the patient experience. She contributed to the recent White Paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, Keeping the NHS Local, and the Wanless review. She also led a major modernisation initiative for the Modernisation Agency: Hospital at Night (2003/04).

Candace holds a Masters degree in Health Economics and Health Policy from Birmingham University. Her first degree was from Cambridge University where she read Natural Sciences.