Framework for integrated care organisation pilots

It recommends:

• Patient and public participation at individual and collective levels so as to ensure patient satisfaction and to enhance patient engagement with health improvement measures.
• Emphasis on prevention and reduction of ill health.
• Collaboration across primary, community and secondary care boundaries, and across health and social care boundaries too.
• A requirement that proposals should cover the whole disease spectrum, so as to avoid cherry picking.
• Emphasis on clinical leadership so that clinician involvement from the start can ensure successful implementation.

NHS Alliance chairman Dr Michael Dixon said: ‘This is what the NHS should be about. Providing seamless, patient-centred care within a defined budget, with measurable clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction.’

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