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Integrated care

Our work focuses on the widespread adoption of integrated care to meet the needs of frail older people and others with complex health and social care needs.

Overview

Examples of integrated care

Want hear about best practice?

Everything from international case studies to innovative primary care-based approaches to care co-ordination in different parts of the UK.

Commissioning for integrated care

Ten priorities for commissioners

We set out ten priorities to help commissioners transform the health care system.

Health and wellbeing boards: system leaders or talking shops?

Our paper assesses the ways local authorities have begun to develop new arrangements with partners.

Reading Room

Want to know more on integrated care?

For more resources on integrated care, including reading lists, database searches and useful web pages, visit our Reading Room.

Leadership development for integrated care

Building collaborative leadership across health and social care organisations

Designed to support chief executives to lead their organisations more effectively.

Learning network on integrated care for health and wellbeing boards

To develop ideas and share learning about how health and wellbeing boards can deliver their core functions.

Whole system leadership

For health and social care professionals looking to understand and influence local agendas.

Relevant publications

Making integrated care happen at scale and pace Lessons from experience

21 Mar 2013
Chris Ham, Nicola Walsh

Transforming the delivery of health and social care The case for fundamental change

6 Sep 2012
Chris Ham, Anna Dixon, Beatrice Brooke
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Blogs on integrated care

Nick Clegg or Nigel Farage: who should NHS leaders model themselves on?

21 Mar 2013
Chris Ham

How are health and wellbeing boards shaping up to their new responsibilities?

20 Mar 2013
Richard Humphries
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Relevant events

Integrated care summit 2013

Venue:
The King's Fund

Payment reform Moving beyond Payment by Results

Venue:
The King's Fund
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Relevant audio/video

Audio
Don Redding

Don Redding: using a person-centred narrative to drive co-ordinated care

19 Dec 2012

Featuring:

Don Redding
Video
Kenneth Kizer: achieving integrated care - highlights

Kenneth Kizer: achieving integrated care - highlights

4 May 2012

Featuring:

Kenneth Kizer
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Useful links

Sign up to our integrated care and health and wellbeing boards email bulletins

Find out more about our integrated care programme of work

See our work on health and wellbeing boards

More about our project on care co-ordination for people with complex chronic conditions

What does good integrated care mean to you?

Our work on this topic

Press release
Think tanks work together to support integrated care for patients
20 Oct 2011
Multimedia: Audio
Anna Dixon: can competition and integration co-exist in a reformed NHS?
20 Oct 2011
Anna Dixon
Multimedia: Slideshow
Robert Varnam: Future Forum update
20 Oct 2011
Robert Varnam
Multimedia: Audio
Sonia Brown: how economic and competition regulation can promote integration of services
20 Oct 2011
Sonia Brown
Project
Making integrated care a reality
20 Oct 2011
Event
Commissioning for integrated care
20 Oct 2011
Multimedia: Slideshow
Judith Smith and Chris Ham: what role for clinical commissioning groups?
20 Oct 2011
Chris Ham , Judith Smith
Multimedia: Video
Paul Burstow MP: commissioning for integrated care - realising the vision
20 Oct 2011
Paul Burstow
Multimedia: Slideshow
The evidence base for integrated care
20 Oct 2011
Nick Goodwin , Judith Smith
Blog
Do we need more generalists in our hospitals?
12 Oct 2011
Anna Dixon

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