Integrated Care Systems 2023-10-17
2023-10-17
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Q1
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Integrated care systems aim to improve healthcare by better understanding local health needs and allocating resources accordingly.
What recent assessment has been made of the effectiveness of integrated care systems?
Integrated care systems and the organisations within them are making real progress in understanding the health needs of their populations, setting out their plans, developing the infrastructure needed for collaboration, and bringing health and social care organisations together to serve the needs of their communities.
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The answer does not provide a specific assessment or evaluation of effectiveness.
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Q2
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The NHS Cheshire and Merseyside integrated care board has instructed all NHS providers to make 5% cuts in their services without public or parliamentary discussion.
Given the Government's claim of increased funding for the NHS, why are there necessary service cuts? Will the Minister intervene to ensure they do not happen?
NHS England determines the funding received by integrated care systems. That follows a formula which takes into account the needs of local populations, demographic deprivation and so on, and ICSs are then able to direct resources as they are best needed across those populations.
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The answer does not address why cuts are necessary or provide a commitment to prevent them.
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Q3
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A&E waiting times in Wales have been under-reported for the past decade, affecting the accuracy of NHS Wales's efforts to improve health outcomes.
Does the Minister agree that without accurate data, the Labour Government in Cardiff are scuppering the attempts of NHS Wales to deliver better health outcomes throughout Wales?
My hon. Friend has made a good point about the importance of transparency and accurate data. As she said, just this week we learnt that Labour-run NHS Wales had been under-reporting its A&E waiting times. According to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, about 45,000 patients are missing from the data.
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The answer discusses inaccuracies in Welsh healthcare rather than addressing the importance of accurate data for integrated care systems in England.
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Q4
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There is a commitment to increase the number of fracture liaison services but no progress has been made, despite previous assurances.
When will the Government deliver on their commitment for the 'back better bones' campaign?
As the hon. Member has mentioned, I have a broken ankle, and I am taking my responsibility as Minister with oversight of urgent and emergency care very seriously in making use of several of those services. As for my oversight of integrated care systems, what I am seeing is that they are making a very good job of enabling the integration of services.
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The answer discusses unrelated services instead of addressing the commitment to fracture liaison services.
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