Monitor 28 July 2014
- This document assists providers and commissioners of healthcare services, and health and wellbeing boards to comply with their integrated care obligations.
- According to Monitor:
- integrated care is primarily about an individuals’ experience of care and ensuring better outcomes through coordinated, person-centred care and support
- integrated care is neither necessarily about structures, organisations and pathways, nor about the way that care is funded or commissioned
- integration may refer to how services are configured to deliver seamless care, where the patient or user perspective is the organising principle of service delivery
- The document outlines
- Monitor's position relating to:the statutory duties for different healthcare organisations relating to integrated care
- changes to the National Tariff to support integrated care
- the impact on commissioning, contracting (including Section 75 funds), competition, choice and collaboration (incl information sharing)
- Structural integration
