The Road to Independence Day
How to deliver, reinvent and integrate our health and social care?
Solutions hearing – New ways of delivering health and social care services
NHS England, with the support of local authorities and local Health and Wellbeing Boards, are working to develop local integration plans with the aspiration that integrated health and social care will be the ‘the norm’ by 2018.
Our final Independence Day session will ask what more needs to be done to make integrated care happen. It will look at first principles and best practice and demonstrate how innovation and new models of integration can help to deliver greater independence.
This hearing will:
- showcase the good practice emerging from Government's integration pioneers and international experience in delivering integrated, innovative and new models of health and social care;
- examine whether the Oldham Commission’s approach to Whole Person Care could work to generate integration and better local health and social care services.
The session will also examine the opportunities for charities, social enterprises and private sector providers have to bring their capacity, skills and new sources of investment to support the NHS and local councils to deliver new sustainable forms of integrated care closer to home that improve people’s independence, health and wellbeing.
The final session in the series will be solutions focussed and ask: “What practical policy solutions are needed to deliver genuine integration and improve quality of care?”
You can join the debate and read the reports from our previous hearings on our website. Don't forget you can also follow us on Twitter @IndepDaySeries.
