Why district councils are well placed to understand the neighbourhoods and places that systems are trying to support.
6 July 2023
Digital tools can enhance patient care and improve workforce experience without losing the compassion inherent in health and care, writes Sam Burrows.
15 March 2023
Matthew Taylor and Saffron Cordery explore how digital can help deliver the ambitions of integrated care systems (ICSs).
19 October 2022
The importance of integrated care boards’ structure is secondary to ensuring the right culture within the board, writes Lena Samuels.
26 July 2022
The right infrastructure will only be a part of ICSs’ success. What will be key is a shift in leadership culture.
12 July 2022
As integrated care systems today become statutory bodies, our new ICS Network director Sarah Walter shares her hopes for what is to come.
1 July 2022
Lou Patten says changes are needed for NHS Continuing Healthcare assessments, and offers recommendations for joint working practice to deliver it.
2 June 2022
Greater integration with the housing sector can create positive outcomes for everyone.
6 May 2022
A network of peers can provide much-needed support for integrated care board (ICB) leaders, in their navigation of mutual challenges.
8 April 2022
A more robust recruitment process is needed to ensure equality in recruiting to ICS boards.
11 March 2022
Key principles that might be applied to the relationship between ICSs and provider collaboratives.
10 March 2022
A look at how clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have set the stage for integrated care systems (ICSs).
3 March 2022
Joint exploration, learning and networking will serve integrated care systems well as a new chapter beckons, writes Dr Kathy McLean.
24 February 2022
Matthew Taylor on how we're equipping integrated care systems to thrive, ensuring that they deliver real benefits for their populations.
21 February 2022
Matthew Taylor floats four propositions to help ensure that integrated care partnerships fly.
10 February 2022
Integrated care systems (ICSs) and provider collaboratives are at the heart of reforms to enable more collaboration within and outside of the NHS.
3 February 2022
The government’s fourth core objective for ICSs might be the least understood currently, but could be the one that has the most wide-reaching impact.
31 January 2022
Integrating care is a change of mindset and ways of working. It is vital that everyone understands the full role that local councils will play.
28 January 2022
Poor communication about ICS delays hasn't helped what can be an already difficult situation.
14 January 2022
Partnership working between the voluntary sector, local government and the NHS is crucial to improving care for people and communities.
12 January 2022
Strategic thinking is required to ensure key roles in integrated care boards are appointed to appropriately, so they can operate from 1 July 2022.
5 January 2022
April 2022 is the starting point for ICSs, not the end goal, argues Lou Patten.
30 November 2021
Chris Ham sets out his reflections on the learning from his three years as chair of Coventry and Warwickshire ICS.
5 November 2021
Many countries have seen health inequalities exacerbated and poorer population health outcomes since the start of the pandemic.
4 November 2021
Matthew Taylor explores the potential for ICS leaders to become wider influencers through building a powerful collective voice.
29 October 2021
With medicines optimisation costs increasing, effective approaches are needed at national, systems and place levels with ICSs playing a key part.
27 October 2021
Independent providers and the NHS must take an ‘all shoulders to the wheel’ approach to integrated care, or risk doing patients a disservice.
25 October 2021
Matthew Taylor on system leadership and why thinking like a system but acting like an entrepreneur is the order of the day.
21 September 2021
ICS leaders are rising to the challenge of strengthening system partnerships while preparing to take on statutory responsibilities from April 2022.
23 August 2021
The role of PCNs within ICSs is about to significantly change with the introduction of the new health and social care bill.
23 July 2021
With differences between ICS, it is vital that there is flexibility to enable systems to respond agilely to meet their particular circumstances.
26 May 2021
Changes to procurement are welcomed by the ICS Network and NHS Clinical Commissioners, with the need for transparency and a level of consistency.
24 May 2021
Sarah Walter explains that the way leaders are leading is changing and can be at variance to preconceptions of what leadership is.
12 May 2021
GP Helen Davies considers why the measurement of integrated care system success must be what service users experience.
9 May 2021
Collaboration has become a buzz word in the development of integrated care systems.
25 April 2021
The recent health and care white paper has broadly been welcomed by health leaders, but there are still concerns that need to be addressed.
1 April 2021
As the NHS moves to integrated care, we look at the integral role of commissioning in integrated care systems.
17 March 2021
COVID-19 has exposed health inequalities and given a platform for increased partnership working and integrated care.
29 September 2020
Beyond commissioning and how it has added value to the response to COVID-19.
9 September 2020
The expectations of phase 3 of COVID-19 pandemic and cautions not to raise expectations beyond what can be delivered.
3 August 2020
Our NHS Reset campaign contributes to the public debate on what the health and care system should look like in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
23 June 2020
NHS Reset is a campaign to contribute to the public debate on what the health and care system should look like in the aftermath of the pandemic.
16 June 2020
NHS Reset is a new NHS Confederation campaign to contribute to the public debate on what the health and care system should look like post-COVID-19.
6 May 2020
A look at the benefits of system working.
9 March 2020
How the concept of ‘place’ has made an impact in Mid-Nottinghamshire.
5 March 2020
Examining what health services can do to address health inequalities.
2 March 2020
The NHS Long Term Plan makes it clear that health and care services will have to change. But what is the best way to take this forward?
24 February 2020
The future of integrated care systems.
17 February 2020
The delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan depends on establishing strong partnerships between local systems.
14 February 2020
We leave the EU without the threat of no deal, but the next 11 months will be just as great as it has been up until now.
3 February 2020
