Integrated care and system working

Provider boards are invested in greater collaboration and better integration, understanding that collaboration between system partners can help address immediate pressures and deliver longer term improvements. The Health and Care Act, which became law in 2022, provides the legal basis for collaboration between NHS bodies and to facilitate integration, cementing a wider shift towards collaboration and integration.

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News
28 Mar 2025

Trust leaders back calls to move care closer to home

Saffron Cordery responds to a new report from the King's Fund calling for a rebalancing of NHS funding towards primary and community services.

Blog
27 Mar 2025

Why the shift to community needs sound governance

Our systems policy advisor, Emily Newton, explains why strong governance is vital to enable responsibilities to be held at a local level

Emily NewtonEmily Newton
Report
21 Mar 2025

Provider collaboratives building capacity: investing in community provision

This is the third and final instalment in our series, which highlights the role mental health provider collaboratives are playing to build capacity in local communities

News
03 Mar 2025

Social care reform long overdue

Isabel Lawicka responds to a report by the King's Fund on the funding of social care

Briefing
30 Jan 2025

On the day briefing: 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance

NHS Providers share a briefing highlighting key points from the guidance document published, with also our view.

News
30 Jan 2025

NHS trust leaders face difficult decisions and tough trade-offs in the year ahead

Saffron Cordery responds to the publication of the planning guidance by NHS England.

Briefing
13 Nov 2024

Next day briefing: The Insightful Provider Board and the Insightful ICB Board

NHS Providers share a next day briefing in light of NHS England publishing guidance documents for provider boards and integrated care boards.

Izzy AllenIzzy Allen
News
31 Oct 2024

Providers Deliver: shifting care upstream

A new report by NHS Providers shows how in the face of a very challenging environment trusts are innovating and adapting to deliver the three key shifts called for by the government.

Briefing
25 Oct 2024

On the day briefing: The state of health care and adult social care in England 2023/24

NHS Providers share a briefing summarising the Care Quality Commission (CQC)’s new State of Care report.

Blog
22 Jul 2024

How integrated care systems can make the most of their digital strategy

Sarah Walter, director of NHS Confederation’s ICS Network shares three key questions that can help integrated care systems see more efficiencies around their digital work.

Sarah WalterSarah Walter
Briefing
09 Jul 2024

System working in the NHS: How trusts work in partnership to improve care and outcomes for people

This resource looks at the role of system working in the NHS and how trusts can work in partnerships to improve outcomes.

Report
26 Jun 2024

Provider collaboratives building capacity: elective hubs

This report highlights the role provider collaboration is playing in building capacity through the development of elective hubs.

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