Report 14/12/2021Sarah ReedCamille OungJenny DaviesMark DayanSarah Scobie
The integration of health and social care has been a long-standing policy priority in each country of the UK. However, there is limited evidence these policies are delivering the results expected of them. This report looks at the impact of integration across the four countries and compares the polic...
Indicator update 18/02/2021Jenny Davies
In our latest update we look at trends in the quality of integrated care.
Briefing 18/11/2019
With a number of different integrated care models not reducing hospital admissions as expected, this briefing outlines the reasons why this might be happening. It includes advice for model design and implementation, for commissioners of evaluation, and for evaluators on how to address these issues.
Briefing 08/11/2019
Primary care networks were introduced in early 2019 with the intention that they would stabilise general practice and act as the bedrock of integrated care systems. However, there is a lack of clarity over how broad national ambitions can be realised locally. What pitfalls face primary care networks...
Report 11/10/2019Dr Rebecca Rosen
With an increasing number of GPs leaving clinical practice or working part time, and many practices unable to fill vacant GP posts, this briefing presents some ideas on how general practice can continue to be provided as the shortage of GPs becomes chronic.
Report 10/07/2019Mark DayanProf. Deirdre Heenan
Three years after Rafael Bengoa’s blueprint for improving the Northern Irish health service, this report uses interviews with health service leaders in Northern Ireland as well as outside experts and clinicians to assess which factors are helping or hindering Northern Ireland's efforts to change i...
Blog post 13/06/2019Eilís Keeble
Knowing which of the growing number of initiatives to join up care in the health service actually work for patients is crucial. Based on her experience with an earlier wave of integration initiatives – the “Pioneers” – Eilís Keeble looks at what needs to be done to make this possible.
Conference/seminar 01/05/2019 • 10.00–15.00
The Nuffield Trust partnered with the Health Foundation to explore why evaluations of integrated care do not always produce the results we expect in this seminar.
Video 28/02/2019
Vasco Antunes Pereira, Chief Executive of Hospital de Cascais, Portugal, discusses the Portuguese system and how his organisation became an internationally renowned exemplar of good practice with …
Video 28/02/2019
Katri Länsivuori (Account Manager, 2M-IT Finland) discusses how her local health and care system in South Karelia, Finland has improved patient experience by integrating health and care services. Pre…