Making integrated out-of-hospital care a reality
The current set of financial and demographic challenges faced across health and social care mean that integration is undoubtedly a necessity.
This paper provides a set of principles to lay the foundations for delivering effective integrated out-of-hospital care, each underpinned by a range of drivers and enablers.
At the heart of an integrated model for out-of-hospital care must be the provision of better care for all, not merely those meeting ever stricter eligibility criteria.
Steps should be taken to enable better patient experience of integrated care year-on-year, while also empowering communities to pilot elements of a new approach.
Organisations can utilise risk profiling systems to help to ascertain those who should gain the most from an integrated system. Alongside robust risk sharing, there is undeniably a need to ensure shared gains, to enable any savings to be appropriately reinvested, provided desired outcomes are being delivered.
Design of new tariffs to incentivise integrated care can be supported with more widespread information sharing.
The impact of integrated care upon staff, both on their ways of working and care of patients, will need to be demonstrated, with staff engaged throughout the transition.
Published : 31st December 2012
Publisher : NHS Confederation [ More From This Publisher ]
Rights : NHS Confederation
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