Integration and Innovation in Action

Addressing the biggest challenges facing health and care through integrated approaches and partnership working.
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Across the NHS, social care and beyond, integrated care systems and the organisations that make up these partnerships are demonstrating the benefits of integrated working when it comes to improving care for patients. 

Our Integration and Innovation in Action series highlights how our members and their partners from across health and care are working together in new ways to address the major challenges facing the health and care system. 

Browse this section to access our latest publications, join our breakfast webinars and get involved in the conversation on social #IntegrationInAction.

Recent highlights

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Transforming health and wellbeing services through population health management

Exploring practical shifts towards population health and population health management approaches.

27 November 2023
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Transformative, not tokenistic: the patient voice in integrated care systems

Exploring how the patient voice can embedded into system working in a meaningful and transformative way.

28 July 2023
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Are integration and innovation enabling better mental health provision?

As demand for mental health support increases, organisations are working in new and different ways to meet demand. In this long read we explore how.

6 April 2023
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Population health

How health and care organisations are working in new and different ways to create healthier communities.

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Provider collaboration

An in-depth look at how collaborations between providers at neighbourhood, place and system level are making a positive impact on patient care.

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Community capacity

Exploring how local integration is driving efforts to improve outcomes for patients and local communities.

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Virtual care

An in-depth look at how NHS organisations are using virtual care to improve outcomes for patients and local communities.

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Elective backlog

Early examples of how local systems are addressing the elective recovery challenge.

Case studies

How local organisations are working in partnership to tackle the biggest challenges facing health and care

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Podcasts

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Prof Joe Rafferty: Use population health as a driving device for population equality

Prof Joe Rafferty on the power of population health management, a decade of NHS leadership and managing risk this winter and beyond.

28 September 2022
Gregor Henderson
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Gregor Henderson: Mental health is just part of what it means to be human

Gregor Henderson on digital innovation, health inequalities and investment in the wider determinants of mental health.

12 May 2022
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Prof Donna Hall: Let's think longer term about how we build resilient communities

Professor Donna Hall on community engagement, building resilient communities and why integrated care systems need to ask themselves tough questions.

20 April 2022
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Past events

Webinar

Watch: Using PHM for system transformation and equitable resource allocation

Our expert panel discussed and examined how population health management can inform effective system transformation.

19 July 2022 13:00 - 14:00 GMT
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Watch: Scalable solutions in mental health

How integration between different parts of the health system can provide solutions to some of challenges that mental health services face.

12 May 2022 11:30 - 12:30 GMT
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Watch: Provider collaboration: working together to improve patient outcomes

Uncover the power of provider collaboration as our panel of experts explore working across boundaries to improve patient pathways and outcomes.

30 March 2022 08:00 - 09:15 GMT