Integrated Care

Identifying needs, building interventions and busting myths: adventures in population health

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Identifying needs, building interventions and busting myths: adventures in population health

At the recent Health Plus Care Show at London Excel I spoke in the Transforming Primary Care Theatre. The insights I shared were harvested from a number of engagements that Sollis has had with Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) over a five year period commencing in 2012. More recently this work has concerned itself with population health analytics, where we have worked with local commissioners, including clinicians, in order to help them gain a better understanding of the current and future health status/needs of their local populations. Read More…

Chip at the old block

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The Health Service Journal today reports that, “National organisations including the Department of Health, NHS Commissioning Board and sector regulators are drawing up a joint statement of purpose to set how they will make integrated care a reality.” Apparently this statement of purpose is to take the form of a ‘common purpose framework’ and is … Read more

Joined up thinking?

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There has always been plenty to argue about in the NHS. Amidst all the uncertainty that a New Year brings of one thing we can be sure – this won’t change in 2013. Indeed, as the latest NHS reforms become reality on 1st April 2013, expect more heat and not necessarily more light.

What has struck me, however, is the amount of consensus that is seemingly building on the subject of Integrated Care.

Sure there are shades of grey – probably more than fifty – but on the central premise of ‘is it a good thing?’ there would appear to be general agreement. Read More…