by Su Gordon Graham | Feb 6, 2025 | Health
Upon reading yesterday’s article in the HSJ, ‘ICBs to tackle inefficient block contracts’, I was struck that this isn’t just déjà vu – it’s actually happened before. For those of us who have been in commissioning for over 25 years, there is a definite...
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 Nene Antonio | Dec 20, 2024 | Health
The NHS and local authorities share a critical mission: to deliver effective, integrated health and social care services that improve lives. Despite the shared goal, financial misalignment often hampers collaboration, leading to inefficiencies, higher costs, and...
by Sean Allen | Dec 6, 2024 | Health
Two months have passed since the Dazi Report found that “too many people end up in hospital, because too little is spent in the community”. Since then, there has been significant conversation on the funding of acute vs community care. However, the barriers to shifting...
by Lucienne Limer | Nov 12, 2024 | Health
