NHS organisations and local councils in England are joining forces to coordinate services around the whole needs of each person. Their aim is that people can live healthier lives and get the care and treatment they need, in the right place, at the right time.

Find out more through our case studies and films about how integrated care across the NHS is changing and developing to better meet people’s needs.

Integrated care

• Integrated care in action – population health management
• Improving population health on the frontline – a patient’s view
• Integrated care: aligning health with economic growth
• Integrated care: how clinical leadership makes a system
• The keys to achieving integrated care
• Integrated care: partnership working with the voluntary sector
• Wakefield’s Fieldhead Hospital celebrates 200 year birthday – West Yorkshire STP
• Advice line for GPs saves hours of travel for patients and £100k to be reinvested back into NHS
• New virtual clinic designed by doctors gives renal patients more specialist consultant time
• Pain patients’ hospital wait reduced by 90% saving NHS £200k a year
• Pioneering price match scheme frees up millions for frontline care
• Patients avoid 7,500 nights in hospital with ‘tailored’ home help scheme

Primary care

• Joined-up working that supports both patients and staff
• Caring for people most vulnerable to COVID-19 in Thanet, NHS Kent and Medway
• “It’s been a real eye opener”- experiences of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Integrated care in action – primary care
• GP practices free up 3,000 extra patient appointments through Primary Care Network
• MSK First Contact Practitioners Case Study: The Deepings Practice, Lincolnshire

Children and young people

• Integrated care in action – children and young people
• Child health hubs see patients closer to home and reduce unnecessary hospital trips

Older people’s care

• Integrated care in action – older people’s care
• Joined-up working rapidly reaping the rewards for patients
• NHS and social care hub helps people at risk stay well and out of hospital
• Older people living with frailty ‘virtual ward’ keeps them well at home and out of hospital
• People feeling isolated or lonely helped by innovative health and social care partnership

Health inequalities

• Integrated care: supporting people with complex needs
• Integrated care in action – health inequalities
• Pioneering home alteration project between NHS and Council helps get people home from hospital sooner

Mental health

• Integrated care: a mental health collaborative
• Integrated care: mental health support for schools
• Integrated care in action – mental health
• Unique mental health scheme helps 1,000 people back to work and generates funds for NHS
• Mental health nurses and paramedics to respond together to reduce avoidable hospital admissions
• New mental health 111 service reduces A&E visits by a third

Self-care and prevention

• Integrated care in action – self-care and prevention
• NHS Chief hails scheme to help footy fans to slim down

Urgent care

• Integrated care in action – urgent care
• 17,000 hospital nights and £7m saved for NHS through early treatment ‘iCares’ scheme

The map below also highlights where these and other interventions are happening across different areas of the country. Click on each marker to find out more information.