Integration, cooperation and partnerships overview
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Integration, cooperation and
partnerships
Care Act 2014
Integration, cooperation and
partnerships are not new concepts
Health Act 1999
Independence Wellbeing and Choice 2005
National Health Service Act 2006
Health and Social Care Act 2012
“The vision is for
integrated care and
support that is personcentred, tailored to the
needs and preferences of
those needing care and
support, carers and
families.”
Improve the service user
experience
Eliminate duplication
Streamline care pathways
Collaborate on early
intervention and prevention
Improve safeguarding
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Why integration, cooperation and
partnerships?
“Silo” working
Organisational barriers
Different operational
practices
Duplications
Better access to services
Local provision
Prevent and delay care
needs
Integration, cooperation, partnerships
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What does the Act say?
Sections 3, 6, 7 and 43 of the Act require that:
3.
“A local authority must exercise its functions under this Part with a view to
ensuring the integration of care and support provision with health
provision and health-related provision”
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“A local authority must co-operate with each of its relevant partners, and
each relevant partner must co-operate with the authority, in the exercise
of their functions relating to adults and carers”
7.
“Local authorities and their partners must co-operate where this is
needed in the case of specific individuals who have care and support
needs”
43. “Each local authority must establish a Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB)
for its area... The way in which a SAB must seek to achieve its objective is
by co-ordinating and ensuring the effectiveness of what each of its
members does.”
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What do we mean by integration,
cooperation and partnerships?
Integration: The combined set of methods, processes and models that
seek to bring about improved coordination of care
Cooperation: Public organisations working in partnership to ensure a
focus on the care and support and health and health-related needs of
their local population
Partnership: A joint working arrangement where the partners: are
otherwise independent bodies; agree to co-operate to achieve a
common goal; create a new organisational structure or process to
achieve this goal; plan and implement a joint programme; share
information, risks and rewards
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With whom should local authorities
cooperate?
District
Councils
Other
authorities
Local
authorities
Others
CCGs
Health
Cooperation
Prisons and
probation
Hospital
trusts
NHS
England
DWP
Police
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Working together: examples of
integration, cooperation and
partnerships
Strategic planning by building better commissioning arrangements or
joint commissioning teams
Commissioning integrated services, or jointly commissioning specific
services such as advice and advocacy services
Assessments, information and advice such as integrated health,
care and housing assessments
Delivery or provision of care via integrated community teams, or
working with housing providers to ensure that adaptations support
independence, reablement or recovery
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