SKILLS for Care is focusing on supporting #IntegratedCare with its ‘Making integration happen’ campaign during July.
Integrated care systems play a key role in promoting and facilitating integrated care. This campaign is dedicated to empowering social care providers to engage with their ICS, and highlight the many benefits that collaboration brings.
Integration between health and social care services leads to higher quality care for those being supported. Achieving this requires health and social care teams to understand each other’s challenges and work towards common goals.
Integration benefits not just those being supported but enables the adult social care sector’s voice to be heard on critical issues, such as funding, planning, and commissioning of local care and support services.
Jeanette Cookson, integration programme head at Skills for Care, said: “We need to make integration happen to combine the unique perspectives, contribution and wealth of expertise that both health and social care bring in delivering care.
“The combination of both lenses allows every successful ICS to deliver person-centred care. This means we need to learn about each other’s worlds and build upon our strengths.
“This campaign will help social care providers engage with their ICS so their unique insight can help deliver more seamless care for those being supported.”
The campaign will run across Skills for Care’s website, social media and other communications channels and will include resources to help with understanding integration, how social care providers can support integrated care, and why integrated care is so important to the future of adult social care.
