Integrated Care Systems 2023
Systems, Places, Neighbourhoods
23rd March 2023
Royal Society of Medicine, London
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As part of our ongoing series of annualised market leading UK Health policy conferences and directly following on from the inaugural “Long Term Plan – Transition, Integrate, Improve” conference. Govconnect is delighted to announce the launch of “Integrated Care 2023 – Systems, Places, Neighbourhoods – The journey towards better health and care outcomes for the people they serve.
Integrated care systems are made up of three major pillars of work: Primary care networks, Personalised care and Population health management. Together, these three Ps form a core offer for local people which ensures care is tailored to their personal needs and delivered as close to home as possible.
Each ICS will be responsible for looking after and delivering all the health and care services in the area it covers. Each one will be made up of an integrated care board and an integrated care partnership, working together. The 4 groups that form these are the PCN’s, Place Based Partnerships, NHS Led Provider Collaboratives and Health & Well-Being Boards.
An ICS – in which NHS providers work closely with clinical commissioning groups, primary care networks, local authorities and other partners to share responsibility for how they use their resources to benefit local populations – requires some different ways of working. Key priorities will include promoting health and well-being, re-designing care services and ensuring financial sustainability.
The UK Governments “Levelling up white paper” launched on February 2nd 2022, recognises the need to focus on both economic and social decision-making and the intrinsic links between health, education and skills and the wider economy. This is a welcome statement for those advocating a health-in-all-policies approach.
While ‘levelling up’ as a term is indelibly linked with the current government’s post-2019 agenda, One of the missions explicitly refers to the need to narrow the gap in healthy life expectancy between local areas. A white paper on health disparities will be published this year, setting out an ambition for reducing the gap in health outcomes. More broadly, the levelling up white paper is an important framing document for integrated care system and NHS leaders across the country. Many of the missions will have direct and indirect implications for service demand, population health, workforce supply, innovation and local partnerships. An example of this is the associated target that by 2030, the gap in healthy life expectancy (HLE) between local areas where it is highest and lowest will have narrowed, and by 2035 HLE will rise by 5 years.Â
Although previously informal and alliance-based, the Government’s Health and Care Bill seeks to make ICSs statutory bodies from April 2022. If the Bill becomes law, ICSs will take on legal responsibility for NHS resources and commissioning of services locally. The ICS will take on the commissioning responsibility that currently sits with the CCG. It will also be responsible for broader aims such as strategic planning for the area.
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