Background: The emergence of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) across England poses an
additional challenge and responsibility for local commissioners to accelerate the …

Purpose–The paper draws on the experience of the health and social care system in
Herefordshire to answer what, when and how improvements in cost and quality can be …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the recent efforts of a large publicly funded
healthcare organisation in Sydney, Australia to implement integrated care (IC)“at scale and …

Methods: We examined implementation and short-term outcome in a multi-method
evaluation based on qualitative interviews, direct observation, electronic surveys and …

Background Commissioning is a term used in the English National Health Service (NHS) to
refer to what most health systems call health planning or strategic purchasing. Drawing on …

For many years there has been a separation between purchasing and provision of services
in the English National Health Service (NHS). Many studies report that this commissioning …

Purpose Across the UK integrated commissioning is seen as important to achieving
integrated care. In Great Britain this has largely meant separate health and social care …

In January 2019, the University of Birmingham hosted a one-day workshop organised by the
Journal of Integrated Care and the Integrated Care Researcher Network. As previous editors …

On 26 November 2020 NHS England and NHS Improvement jointly issued a consultation
document entitled Integrating Care: Next steps to building strong and effective integrated …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore and assess the configuration, role and
likely contribution of the new integrated care partnerships (ICPs) established in Northern …