Workforce challenges are being faced across the health and care system. Read how four different Integrated Care Systems are working to tackle some of these challenges in their local areas.
16 September 2024
How three systems are using clinical and care professional leadership in practice and the steps they are taking to deliver the five principles.
18 April 2024
Discover how Hull and North Yorkshire ICB integrated health and care services to establish a centre for frailty.
8 September 2023
Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICS is exceeding the national targets for improving access to support for people at risk of type 2 diabetes.
13 July 2023
A pioneering scheme is delivering leadership training that brings together different NHS organisations, the local authority and the voluntary sector.
23 June 2023
The Leading Integration Peer Support (LIPS) programme is a unique partnership of the Local Government Association, NHS Providers and the ICS Network.
28 June 2024
An AI-powered command centre in Bradford is boosting efficiency, alleviating pressure on staff and helping to orchestrate better patient care.
10 June 2024
The Silver Triage initiative enables specialist geriatricians to provide advice to ambulance paramedics who are assessing older people.
18 July 2023
Breaking down regional data for Sussex into small areas has highlighted patients who have not taken up the offer of bowel cancer screening.
A new community hub in Croydon brings together statutory and voluntary bodies to offer face-to-face advice on anything from housing to mental health.
Kent and Medway ICS's expanded use of a ‘vaccine bus’ to also offer mini health checks has proved popular.
9 June 2023
The ICS in Northamptonshire has, with partner organisations, helped create a web of support for patients with long-term conditions.
5 May 2023
A two-year pilot scheme offers bespoke support for military families facing challenges around healthcare, pregnancy and birth in Lincolnshire.
26 April 2023
Placing a mental health nurse in a housing team has ensured the right mental health support is in place and aligned with housing need.
6 April 2023
NHS and public health services in Shropshire worked in partnership to provide early mental health intervention and rapid-access pathways.
How eligible frail patients, who would otherwise have needed to be kept in hospital, are being supported at home by a multidisciplinary team.
22 March 2023
How One Devon ICS has worked with local trusts to deliver extra capacity at a former Nightingale hospital, now converted into an elective centre.
20 March 2023
How One Gloucestershire ICS used an external peer review in the development of its local framework for clinical and care professional leadership.
13 March 2023
How Lincolnshire’s ICS, Better Lives Lincolnshire, facilitated partnership working between the integrated care partnership and local authority HWB.
17 October 2022
Improving the conditions for place-based health to flourish through a co-creation approach to health and wellbeing.
23 June 2022
Developing a population health and care platform helped identify and target underserved populations using an integrated data set.
An innovative smoking cessation programme in hospitals has made the treatment of tobacco addiction part of the routine care offered.
Working collaboratively to support early parent-infant relationships across the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System.
Addressing frailty needs and improving outcomes through integrated working in Bradford District and Craven.
6 May 2022
Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire worked together to reduce waiting times that children were facing for surgery.
21 April 2022
Primary care and community services are working together in North Yorkshire to appoint community posts to support dementia and end-of-life care.
A collaboration between primary care, the mental health trust and the voluntary sector has helped to reduce mental health inequalities in Sheffield.
A unique perinatal care bundle has improved the outcomes for premature babies across the west and south west of England.
Surrey Heartlands ICS provides a rapid response to discrimination and health inequalities in its workforce and community, through its BAME Alliance.
1 February 2022
Asset-based community development has led to a significant reduction in non-clinical GP visits for loneliness and isolation.
13 January 2022
In 2020, COVID-19 vaccination data for Cheshire and Merseyside showed a lot of vaccine hesitancy, especially among ethnic minority groups.
A PTCDA pilot has protected elderly residents’ health during the pandemic and significantly reduced hospital admissions.
13 December 2021
Improving mental and physical health outcomes for asylum seekers and refugees through holistic support.
How the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership is addressing health inequalities in the region.
29 September 2020
Read how the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership is addressing health inequalities in the region.
28 September 2020
How Bradford has used system control totals and fixed-income contracts to align incentives, pool risk and achieve financial balance.
10 March 2020
Good relations between different sectors and partners in Newcastle have enabled a cohesive approach to health, social care and health inequalities.
31 January 2020
Learn about Connected Nottinghamshire, a digital transformation programme aiming to integrate health and social care systems across Nottingham.
17 January 2020
