STRUCTURE: NHS bodies in Hampshire are working with the county council on integrated care projects, including a national pilot for the year of care tariff.
Southern Health Foundation Trust – a mental health and community trust – is collaborating with West Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust and Hampshire County Council’s social services division on the project.
The project centres on services in and around Winchester.
A board paper says: “This work is of massive strategic importance to the trust, as it paves the way for capitated funding for the integrated care of the types of patient who form SHFT’s core business.
“The project is currently in the process of testing the methodology for identification of the relevant patient cohort and the associated costs of their care.”
Southern Health has also set up a new integrated services division for Southampton and west Hampshire, bringing together its physical and mental health services for frail older people, and those with multiple conditions.
These plans involve close collaboration with University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, and Solent Trust.
The board paper says: “The most important strands of these plans will be the development of an integrated, primary-care facing health and social care model informed by proactive management of patient risk, and the design of an integrated, community-facing model for the acute care and post-acute rehabilitation of frail older people.”
Meanwhile Portsmouth Hospitals Trust, Southern Health and Solent Trust have set up an “integrated outliers focused team” to cut hospital admissions.
Source date
January 2013
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