Provider collaboratives
Oli Hudson, content director at Wilmington Healthcare, takes a look at the new groups of providers that are expected to play a pivotal role in integrating care
The NHS’ commitment to integrated, place-based care was reaffirmed in a recent white paper which positioned a new set of organisations, known as provider collaboratives, at the heart of delivering this change.
According to the
Integrating care: Next steps to building strong and effective integrated care systems across England white paper, these groups of providers will take an ‘active and strong’ leadership role in ‘places.’
Indeed, provider collaboratives will be expected to agree and implement clinical pathways and service reconfiguration for a defined population, and challenge and hold each other to account on finance.
How does the government plan to reshape the NHS?
Oli Hudson, of Wilmington Healthcare, explores the government’s new white paper, which proposes key reforms for health and social care
Introduction
The Government’s new white paper solidifies and codifies much of what has been happening in health policy around integration over the past five years, as reflected in the NHS Long-term Plan and the Five Year Forward View.
Indeed the ‘Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all’, white paper, which lays out legislative proposals for a Health and Care Bill, indicates a clear shift to collaborative working.