NHS Integrated Care’s Post [Video]

Integrated health care will achieve its best outcomes taking the wider determinants of health into account .  Health accounts for just 10% of health outcomes which takes working outside of silos beyond the realm of clinicians.   Community assets based approaches are an important contribution.  A particularly important approach to addressing BAME health inequalities at a time when there are a growing number of cities with BAME majority populations.

Integrated care should be looked at from the patient's point of view to speed up and improve the patient pathway across multiple providers. That means providing in advance all relevant patient information as patients cross service sectors and in fact giving best estimates well in advance of that such as providing likely discharge date to local authorities so they can gear up faster and more economically to accommodate home care needs and informing the local authority when a patient enters hiospital so that local authority services can be suspended. The amazing thing is that every one wins - hospitals minimise bed blockers and increase patient throughput and revenues, local authorities can plan better and save money and the patient is much happier.