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Care provision, integration and continuity

Being responsive means being aware of and effectively connected into the wider health and social care sector, including understanding how this works at a system level.

The following film provides a summary of this area of inspection. It can help you and your teams learn about what will be inspected and what is important to demonstrate to deliver good or outstanding care.

Introducing Care provision, integration and continuity

Duration 01 min 17 sec

Responsive care looks at how your service is joined up with others in the local community, including healthcare to provide effective continuity of care and seamless service.

With health and care provision continuing to evolve, the CQC will want to know how you ensure your service is effectively engaged with others and these relationships support you to better support people’s choices.

Be prepared to explain how you connect with the wider community and manage relationships with changing healthcare systems to best serve the people you support. Share examples about how such connections and effective ways of working enable better continuity of care, support, and treatment.

The CQC inspectors may want to interview people, managers, and staff from across your service, but they also want to speak to external organisations you are connected with. This may include reviewing feedback from community groups, voluntary organisations, local authorities, and Integrated Care Systems.

To learn more about how you can meet this area of CQC inspection, take a look at GO Online.

Watch the film here: https://vimeo.com/788208508

Resources

The practical resources below can help you to strengthen this area of CQC inspection. Use the filter to choose different types of resources or select based on related prompt.

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Integrated care - Practical ways to raise the voice of the adult social care sector

Resource creator: Skills for Care

Drawing on experiences of Skills for Care’s integration lead and providers benefitting from working with integrated care systems (ICSs), this webinar recording looks at person-centred approaches and what the CQC might expect. It also focuses on practical ways to build mutually beneficial relationships to enable communities to work together in delivering integrated care. 

  • Guide

Date published: October 2023


Integration case studies

Resource creator: Skills for Care

Following the establishment of 42 integrated care systems (ICSs) across England in July 2022, organisations and professionals from across social care, health and other sectors have been working hard to establish improved and more integrated ways of working.

Skills for Care has compiled examples of where integration across sectors is already working well. You'll find examples of how leaders of social care organisations are involved with their ICS and innovative ideas for making integrated ways of working a success. 

  • Website

Date published: May 2023


What does integration in health and social care mean?

Resource creator: Skills for Care

This webpage provides a short overview and introduction into Integrated Care Systems, Integrated Care Boards (ICB) and Integrated Care Partnerships, helping to answer the following and explain how adult social care providers can get involved.

  • What does integration mean for health and social care?
  • What are Integrated Care Systems?
  • The structure of Integrated Care Systems
  • How can social care employers can get involved with their ICS?

To support your learning, the information is accompanied by a short film.

  • Website
  • Guide
  • Film

Date published: May 2023


Integration

Resource creator: Skills for Care

Our resources have been developed specifically to help you to consider how to work across Social care, health services, housing organisations and other service providers to deliver seamless care.

This section includes guidance on:

  • Integration and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) – what’s changing and why?
  • Practical solutions to support integrated care systems (ICSs)
  • The principles of workforce integration
  • Building trust between social care and health organisations
  • A guide to coordinating care
  • Role of prevention in social care
  • Delegated healthcare interventions
  • Guide

Date published: October 2022


Integrated workforce thinking across systems: practical solutions to support integrated care systems (ICSs)

Resource creator: NHS Employers, Skills for Care, Local Government Association

This guide was produced in response to the establishment of 42 ICSs across England in July 2022. ICSs are working to develop a workforce that integrates and connects across all parts of the system to deliver personal, person-centred care to their local populations now and in the future. This guide will help you to understand: 

  • what is meant by integrated thinking across systems, to enable you to have informed conversations with the leaders responsible for making it happen
  • the challenges faced by the health and care systems and the benefits of shared workforce thinking
  • what data is being collected and how this is helpful for informing integrated workforce planning
  • the importance of person-centred care and involving people with lived experience in workforce planning, so that you are ready to support this.
  • Guide

Date published: October 2022


Information provided by local authorities in shared care records

Resource creator: Professional Records Standard Body (PRSB)

Endorsed by professional bodies, national charities, PRSB Standards are closely aligned with NICE guidelines and help health and social care providers to align with best practice.

This standard highlights the information that local authorities should hold on record.  It can be useful for adult social care providers to understand what should be available from the local authority to support delivery of care in a residential care or in the community.

  • Guide

Date published: November 2020



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