Nuffield Trust 31 January 2019
- Age UK’s Personalised Integrated Care Programme (PICP) aims to improve the lives of older people through practical support, underpinned by a change in the way that the health and care system works together for these people locally. The scheme is targeted at older people who are deemed to be at risk of a future emergency admission.
- Detailed analysis (n=1996) concludes that it has almost certainly not been able to reduce costs or emergency admissions. While in some areas there was no apparent impact on hospital activity, overall there was a higher than expected use of emergency and outpatient services, and a corresponding increase in costs.
- The results suggest that the scheme may be identifying unmet need in the population, which manifests in greater use of hospital care.
