The integrated system and partnership working in health and care

These resources are based on research from the ‘Better Care Moves for Older People’ project, funded by the NIHR School for Social Care Research (NIHR SSCR). The resource hub includes a catalogue of videos, a summary of key insights from the research project, and a policy brief for social care staff and managers that provides practical tips for improving move-related practices.

Skills for Care highlights that safe and effective delegation from health professionals to care workers can give individuals more choice and control over when and how their care is delivered, improving their overall experience and quality of support. This resource hub shares the delegated healthcare activities guiding principles, along with supporting materials. 

At this free online event our expert panel explored: 

• what good looks like in terms of productivity across the health and care system and supporting staff to perform well 
• the barriers to developing a culture that supports innovation, and how to support people to collaborate, work and think differently 
• how best to assess what success looks like in this context.  

Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) is a national framework and a NHS programme that is centred on the needs of individuals living in a care home setting.

A key component of the programme is that care homes receive support from their local multi-disciplinary team (MDT) of health and social care professionals.

Members of the MDT can:

• make home rounds
• undertake health reviews to help maintain personalised care and support plans
• offer training and development for staff
• deliver shared decision-making medication reviews
• support care homes around managing medicines

More information:

NHS: enhanced health in care homes programme

Sussex Digital team

or contact [email protected] for a print or digital copy of a poster outlining the work of the Sussex Health & Care Enhanced Health in Care Homes programme.

The NHS Long Term Plan contained a commitment to roll out the Framework for Enhanced Health in Care Homes across England between 2020 and 2024. This document explains what the Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) programme is, how to make it work in the best way possible for people living in care homes and the people who care for them, and what everyone involved can expect from it.

This how to guide will give care home managers and staff, guidance on how to create a community within the care home and bring members of the local community into the home to volunteer, befriend, run activities and form friendship groups with their residents.

Using electronic records to capture assessments, diagnostics, care plans and interactions with a person and their family are now commonplace within health and social care services

Resources, consultancy and training on integrating health, care and related services. Includes guides, models and evidence to support local areas, integrated care organisations, sustainability and transformation plans, care and health providers and commissioners.

Integrated care systems (ICSs) are the centrepiece of the biggest legislative overhaul of the NHS in a decade. From July 2022, England will be formally divided into 42 area-based ICSs, covering populations of around 500,000 to 3 million people.

Integrated care is about people only having to tell their story once to get the high-quality care and support that means they can live the lives they want. It presents the opportunity for joint working across service providers to ensure person-centred care, where choice and control is based on what matters to the person drawing on care and support.

This development series is based on insights and experience drawn from work with a number of Integrated Care Systems across England. It will explore what partnership working looks like across teams and organisations. What does this mean for leaders? It is co-designed with input from with the NHSLA and local representatives to understand their current challenges and opportunities. 6 modules in topics including Leading alongside your local communities and Improving the health of our local communities

The Enhanced health in care homes (EHCH) framework (2023) is for primary care networks (PCNs) and providers and commissioners of community health and social care services. It guides the commissioning of and delivery arrangements for health and social care services in collaboration with care homes, so that the entire system works together to provide personalised care, improve outcomes and promote independence for people living in care. It recognises the life course of people who live in a care home and promotes the ethos of living, ageing and dying well.

The NHS across Sussex has set out the immediate and long-term priorities for improvement to health services for local people. Health and care services across the whole country …

Learn practical leadership skills, discover how to build strong partnerships, use teamwork to drive change and overcome cross-sector challenges.

These six principles of workforce integration were developed to support leaders, managers, practitioners and organisations to consider what is meant by integration. They encourage us to think about how workforce development can contribute to the implementation and sustainability of integration by focusing on personalised care and improving the lives of people drawing on care and support.

The Sussex Training Hub supports the delivery of excellent healthcare and health improvement in GP practices by ensuring the primary care workforce of today and tomorrow are trained in the right numbers, have the necessary skills at the right time and in the right place. 

Throughout May we’re supporting you with #UnderstandingIntegration by highlighting what integrated health and care means and how you can get involved with the development of Integrated Care Systems.

Integration between health and social care has been widely discussed for many years. The passing of the Health and Care Act 2022 in April last year and the establishment of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in July 2022 have been key in moving the process forward.

The landscape of the health and care system is ever-changing and complex. At this free online event, our expert panel provided insight and context into the wider health and care landscape and the big issues they wanted to see progress in 2023. Our panel explored how recent trends and future developments could affect people working in the sector, as well as people, patients and communities. 

Our panel addressed your questions on what the current challenges are for the health and care system and how we might begin to address them, and discussed what opportunities lie ahead over the next year.

As a manager in social care, it is important for you to build internal and external partnerships to support your work and the individuals in your workplace.In this module, you’ll start to explore some of those relationships and plan your next steps in providing good and outstanding adult social care services