Independent health economist Jeremy Hurst outlines the findings from a Nuffield Trust study on the factors most likely to impact on the efficiency of NHS trusts

An overview of the Nuffield Trust and King’s Fund’s recommendations for the Department of Health for taking forward its strategy on integrated care

Nuffield Trust Visiting Senior Fellow, Dr Sara Shaw, on the findings of a study exploring the development of a new integrated care system in Trafford

Professor Steve Field, Chair of the NHS Future Forum, on the commissioning of integrated care in the context of recent health reforms

Dr Martin McShane, Director of Commissioning and QIPP at NHS Lincolnshire, on the key principles of commissioning integrated services

Professor Chris Ham, The King’s Fund, on how clinical commissioners can be encouraged to innovate and commission more integrated care

Nuffield Trust Head of Policy Dr Judith Smith on the findings of a study exploring the role of commissioners in promoting integrated care in the NHS

Dr Naresh Rati, Executive Partner, Vitality Partnership, on their vision for patient care and how they engage with both generalists and specialists

Dr James Morrow, a GP at Sawston Medical Practice, outlines the key features of the plan to develop an Accountable Care Organisation in Cambridge

Helen Parker, Practice Partners, on the factors behind the development of the Vitality Partnership, a growing GP partnership in inner-city Birmingham