News Update

Advancing Integrated Care in England: A Practical Path for Care Transformation

Date

November 28, 2018

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The experiences of England's integrated care pilots demonstrates that it's possible to align systems and services around population health goals, despite the challenges.

The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Global Health Innovation Center at Duke University conducted a study to review progress of and identify steps to advance integrated care models in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Implementing these care models is a priority for NHS England: they span a range of person-focused delivery innovations that can improve outcomes that matter for patients while enabling health care resources to be used more efficiently. Given the current funding and legislative context for the NHS, we assessed effective and practical paths to accelerate the adoption of better integrated, higher-value care. We sought to identify feasible modifications in the NHS’ policies and feasible steps for NHS providers to take based on growing experiences in England and globally with integrated care.

Read the blog post: https://www.health.org.uk/blogs/a-plan-to-sustain-and-scale-the-new-care-models

Read the report: https://healthpolicy.duke.edu/accelerating-uptake-value-based-reforms-nhs-england