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<p>The Health and Care Act 2022 established integrated care systems, reforming how
health and adult social care work together by putting partnership at the heart of
planning. The Government has published guidance for integrated care partnerships (ICPs),
on the statutory requirement for each ICP to publish an Integrated Care Strategy to
address the health, social care, and public health needs of their system. All ICPs
have now published their integrated care strategies.</p><p>The integration of health
and social care is often best achieved through collaboration across smaller geographies
within integrated care systems called places. Since the Health and Care Act 2022,
we have seen good progress in the development of place-based arrangements to integrate
health and social care. In October 2023, we published our Shared Outcomes Toolkit
designed to help place-based partnerships develop shared outcomes as a powerful means
of promoting integrated working and joined up care. We also issued a call for evidence
as part of our review of Section 75 of the NHS Act 2006, which permits local authorities
and National Health Service bodies to pool budgets, enabling joint commissioning and
the commissioning of integrated services. The findings of this review will be shared
in due course.</p>
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