The NHS Confederation has called for system leaders to take part in a joint research project to understand the opportunities and obstacles to developing at-scale preventative health and care in integrated care systems (ICSs).
NHS England has published a short guide to the principles behind rapid assessment and treatment (RAT), which provides early senior assessment of ambulance arrivals, and sometimes walk-in arrivals, to add value-adding steps sooner and avoid unnecessary investigations and tests.
This series showcase initiatives undertaken by finance teams to advance population health and wellbeing throughout integrated care systems.
Following an inquiry into community diagnostic centres (CDCs), the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Diagnostics has published its first report.
A case study on the Bolton quality contract that looks at how it incentivises organisations to improve health inequalities.
This briefing explores how the NHS uses financial incentives to encourage organisations to tackle health inequalities.
Case study describing an innovative approach to system wide costing and benchmarking across Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System.
The Department of Health and Social Care has published its evaluation of 2022/23 hospital discharge funding streams – a £500m adult social care discharge fund and a £200m step-down fund for integrated care boards.
Integrated care systems need to lead the shift towards prevention and earlier intervention and make better use of existing resources
Collaboration needs to be at the heart of the NHS as it looks to deal with significant operational and financial challenges.