Integrated care systems: where next? (virtual conference)

• In this session, you will learn about how leaders can identify opportunities for improving population health at a local, regional and national level.
• Our expert panel will explore the potential of ICSs to tackle health inequalities and improve our communities’ health and wellbeing by the NHS, local government and VCSE acting together to address wider determinants of health such as housing, local planning and education.

Jacquie White, Director of System Development, Primary Care and System Transformation, NHS England and NHS Improvement 
Professor Jim McManus, Director of Public Health, Hertfordshire County Council and Prevention Lead, Hertfordshire and West Essex Sustainability and Transformation Partnership
Fatima Elguenuni, Cultural Consultant, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust 
Fatima’s family are Grenfell survivors and she has used her experience as a therapist and mental health practitioner to support her community to heal. Fatima has been influential in helping organisations develop relationships with local communities in the area.

• In this session you will gain insight how the systems that are furthest ahead are those that have given priority to strengthening collaborative relationships and trust between partner organisations and their leaders.
• You will learn from local leaders about what’s getting in the way of progression and what they still need to see happening by April 2021.

Dr Carolyn Wilkins OBE, Chief Executive, Oldham Council and Accountable Officer, NHS Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group  
Patricia Miller, Chief Executive, Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 
Dr Owen Williams OBE, Chief Executive, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.

• In this session you will hear about the national programme supporting local areas to design and implement intelligence functions at a system level.   
• Drawing on learning from Lancashire and South Cumbria, this session explores how areas can share data across their whole system and make the best use of analytics to inform decision making and population health management.  

Ming Tang, National Director, Data and Analytics, NHS England and NHS Improvement 
Declan Hadley, Digital Lead, Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System
Nick Ward, Healthcare Account Specialist, Qlik 

• In this session, you will hear about the different approaches that providers of health and care services are taking to working with each other and consider the role of provider collaboration within ICSs in the future. You will learn about different ways providers are collaborating and what this means in practice for patients, staff and services. 

Jane Ives, Managing Director, Wye Valley NHS Trust 
Dr Rosie Benneyworth, Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care, Care Quality Commission
Raj Jain, Group Chief Executive, Northern Care Alliance NHS Group 

• In this session you will hear about how the relationship between primary care networks (PCNs) and ICSs is developing. 
• Drawing on learning from a primary care organisation in New Zealand and two local system leaders in England, our panel will share reflections on how groups of GPs and community-based services are working together to deliver co-ordinated, proactive care and support, often through multidisciplinary teams.
• You will learn about how primary care leaders can use the skills of a greater range of professionals, build partnerships with wider community-based services, and engage with their ICSs and integrated care partnerships (ICPs). 

Dr Nicole Atkinson, Clinical Lead, South Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Provider and Clinical Lead, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System
Martin Hefford, Chief Executive, Tū Ora Compass Health (New Zealand)
Dr Farzana Hussain, Partner, The Project Surgery and Co-chair, NHS Confederation National PCN Network

Up to now, efforts to measure the success of integrated care have struggled to understand how well the system is working from a user perspective. The NHS long-term plan signalled the development of a new integration index that will be developed jointly with patient groups and the voluntary sector.

In this session, The King’s Fund and NHS England and NHS Improvement will present early results from a study on what a local integration index might look like. Our expert panel will explore the following questions.

• Which methods should local systems be using to better understand users’ experience of integration?
• What role might citizen panels play in measuring and understanding integration from a user’s perspective?
• How should systems act on what they learn? 
• What are the barriers and enablers to making this a reality?

Amy Galea, Deputy Director, Primary Care and System Transformation, NHS England and NHS Improvement
Karen Lloyd, Head of Engagement, Joined up Care Derbyshire 
Graham Prestwich, Patient and Public Involvement Lead, Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network and Board Member, Healthwatch Leeds 

• In this session, you will hear about the Fund’s work on how ‘places’ are developing and their main areas of focus. 
• You will learn about the new leadership arrangements and governance structures that are being created at ‘place’ level, as well as at ICS level, to support collaboration and to enable decision-making and accountability to be distributed to the most appropriate level. 

Anna Charles, Senior Adviser to the CEO, The King’s Fund 

With reflections from:

Jessica Williams, Director of Strategic Commissioning and Programme Director, Tameside and Glossop Care Together
Tom Riordan CBE, Chief Executive, Leeds City Council
Dr Charlotte Augst, Chief Executive, National Voices

• In this session, national, regional and local leaders will share their thoughts on what needs to happen in the next six months to meet the April 2021 deadline, and how systems can continue to develop beyond that point.
• Drawing on learning from the health and care system’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, our expert panel will explore how the outcomes and changes from this experience can shape the next stages in the development of place-based care. 

Amanda Pritchard, Chief Operating Officer, NHS England and NHS Improvement and Chief Executive, NHS Improvement
Sir David Sloman, London Regional Director, NHS England and NHS Improvement
Ceinwen Giles, Patient Leader, Director of Partnerships and Evaluation, Shine Cancer Support and Chair, NHS Cancer Programme Patient and Public Voices Forum, NHS England and NHS Improvement 
Rob Webster, Chief Executive, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Chief Executive West Yorkshire and Harrogate Integrated Care System