Trusts in systems - NHS Providers

From July 2022, Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) were established through statutory integrated care boards (ICBs) and integrated care partnerships (ICPs), with the intention that much of their business is conducted through place-based partnerships and provider collaboratives.

NHS providers are key players in delivering the four key priorities of integrated care systems: improving outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackling health inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access to healthcare; boosting productivity and value for money; and supporting broader economic and social development in local communities.

Our four-year strategy is centred on the need to support our members to navigate this new landscape, supporting them to work collaboratively within and across systems. We also aim to influence and shape emerging policy, and to act as the established voice of providers working within local systems.

What you can expect from us:

We continue to develop and shape our wider influencing and support offer to:

Help you operate within the context of statutory system working.
Support the development of provider collaboratives and place-based partnerships through sharing learning, good practice and support offers.
Explore the details of system working, such as how care is being transformed and integrated, to help inform how your arrangements develop and to support ways of working in local system(s).
Demonstrate how we are representing your voice with national policy makers and keeping you informed about how we are shaping the evolution of system working on your behalf.
Highlight our wider programme of support to help you adapt to the opportunities and challenges of system working.

Resources

Integration at place: A practical toolkit

Local solutions to a national problem: how trusts are working with, and supporting, social care partners

In this blog, Hannah Hayes, considers how in the absence of a sustainable long-term funding settlement, trust leaders are working with their local social care partners in increasingly innovative ways.

Realising the benefits of provider collaboratives

Read our new report to learn more about some of the emerging benefits that provider collaboratives are working to realise, explore how trust leaders see the role of provider collaboratives developing within ICSs and identify some key enablers and risks trust boards need to consider.

Providers in place-based partnerships

Case studies of local collaboration

Putting system-thinking to the test in tackling handover delays

In this blog, Saffron Cordery and Association of Ambulance Chief Executives chair, Daren Mochrie, discuss the challenge of tackling handover delays for trusts working in systems.

Trusts in systems: Engines of transformation

In her latest blog, Saffron Cordery discusses the key role trusts in systems will play in driving transformation, as integrated care systems become statutory bodies under the new Health and Care Act.

The Provider Podcast

This episode looks at the impact for Trusts of the Health and Care Act, examining how it reflects and formalises moves to greater integration, and how the changing landscape is providing opportunities for providers to adapt and expand their roles to improve care and help build healthier communities.

Supporting members

Provider collaboratives

Supporting members to maximise the potential of greater provider collaboration, with a particular focus at scale.

Providers at place

Supporting trusts to work effectively at place.

The Leading Integration Peer Support Programme

A unique partnership of NHS Providers, Local Government Association and the NHS Confederation’s ICS Network utilising the expertise of our sector to deliver bespoke support to health and care systems.