by James Swaffield | Nov 13, 2025 | Health
Commitment. Conviction. Courage. Culture. These are the four words that are needed for any system or provider looking to really drive integrated neighbourhood care. And the four that were focused on by our panel at this week’s NHS Providers Annual Conference when...
by James Swaffield | Jan 21, 2025 | Education and inclusion, Health
“What can schools expect from ICBs, and ICBs from schools?” In 2022 we posed this question in a roundtable while researching our publication on The evolving role of county authorities in Integrated Care Systems with the County Councils Network. Both the Children’s...
by James Swaffield | Apr 5, 2023 | Adult social care, Being IMPOWER, Health, Local government transformation
We are pleased to see three key themes coming through loud and clear in the Hewitt Review. Yesterday the Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt published her independent review of integrated care systems – the Hewitt Review. Its recommendations – while acknowledging that there won’t...
by James Swaffield | Nov 21, 2022 | Adult social care, Health, Local government transformation
Today we launched our report ‘The evolving role of county authorities in Integrated Care Systems’ at the County Councils Network (CCN) Annual Conference. At the panel discussion, which included Professor Claire Fuller and Rachael Shimmin OBE, Chief...
by James Swaffield | Jun 22, 2022 | Adult social care, Health
If ‘place’ and ‘place-based working’ is presupposed as a new concept there is a real risk that we lose out on the opportunities that integration affords. Last week, my colleagues and I attended NHS ConfedExpo in Liverpool; the first proper opportunity since the...
