Embedding clinical leadership in integrated care systems
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The NHS Confederation and NHS Clinical Commissioners write on behalf of their members supporting integrated care and a permissive approach, but highlighting the importance of including clinical leadership on NHS ICS boards:
- ICS NHS bodies will be accountable for key decisions and functions that will always by necessity require clinical skillsets.
- NHS England-Improvement said that it agreed with our members that clinical leadership is fundamental to the success of ICSs.
- The best practice clinical leadership models are those that have multiple layers of multidisciplinary clinicians and professionals within a distributed leadership model.