CQC 13 July 2016
- This report looks at how well care for older people is integrated across health and social care, as well as the impact on older people who use services and their families and carers.
- Recommendations:
- Health and social care leaders should develop and agree a shared understanding and definition of what integrated care means for the population in their local area, and then work towards delivering this shared aim.
- NHS England and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services should lead on developing an agreed methodology and data set for identifying people at risk of admission to secondary care or deterioration.
- Older people should be meaningfully involved in making informed decisions about their care needs and care planning – in particular about the outcomes that are important to them – based on the existing national and local guidance.
- Commissioners and providers in an area should ensure that information and support for older people and their families or carers is available, and this sets out connections between services, and how the people's accessibility needs will be met.
- The National Quality Board, in partnership with the National Information Board, develop and share a set of validated data metrics and outcomes measures for integrated care with person-centred outcomes at the heart of decision making about service provision and based on a consistent, shared view and definition of integration.
