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Integration: a report from the NHS Future Forum
- Authors:
- ALLTIMES Geoff, et al
- Publisher:
- NHS Future Forum
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The NHS Future Forum was set up an independent advisory panel to listen to concerns in the sector, report back and offer advice on the Government's modernisation plans for the NHS. In this report the Panel provides advice on how to ensure the Government’s modernisation programme leads to better integration of services around people’s needs. It draws on consultation patients, carers, local authorities, the voluntary and community sector, NHS and independent sector providers. The report recommends a number of changes to the system to make it easier for local leaders to work together to improve care for their communities and improve the quality of patient care and achieve better outcomes. Recommendations focus on: integrating around people, not pathways; consistent quality outcomes; commissioning and pooled budgets, the role of providers, providing freedom to develop new models of care, and supporting leadership at a national level.
Patient involvement and public accountability: a report from the NHS Future Forum
- Authors:
- ALLTIMES Geoff, et al
- Publisher:
- NHS Future Forum
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In April 2011 the government announced an 8-week NHS Listening Exercise. The objective was to reflect on areas relating to the Health and Social Care Bill and the government's modernisation plans for the NHS which had prompted heated discussion and debate and to bring forward improvements to the legislation where necessary. The 4 core themes were: choice and competition, clinical advice and leadership, patient involvement and public accountability, and education and training. The NHS Future Forum was established as an independent advisory panel to drive engagement around the listening exercise, listen to concerns, report back and offer advice on how the plans might be improved. Views were gathered through meetings and events, website comments, emails and questionnaire responses. This report focuses on the findings concerning the core theme of patient involvement and public accountability. It identifies 3 key inter-connecting priorities and presents findings and recommendations about delivering these through suggested improvements to the modernisation plans: integrated care for patients and communities; the voice of patients and the public embedded in health services, including the voices of children, vulnerable adults, carers and those who are often excluded; and effective systems of accountability and governance. It includes brief illustrative case examples.