Report spotlights need for key local role in ICS partnerships

摘要

Local government leaders or metro mayors should chair integrated care systems (ICSs) partnerships, according to a new report from a cross-party commission of former health ministers The Health Devolution Commission's report this week urged the Government to publicly acknowledge that' place-based partnerships' based on the principle of subsidiarity and the footprints of councils with adult social care responsibilities should be the building blocks of ICSs and the principal level at which integration and delivery of services should be taken forward. Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, a former health secretary and one of the commissioners, called for a 'genuine partnership of equals between the NHS and local government to deliver person-centred care'. He also called for 'levelling up between Department of Health and Social Care and local government, between NHS services and social care, between physical and mental health, and between treatment and prevention'.