Integration news

Claire Kennedy, PPL Co-Founder and Managing Partner, reflects on the causes for celebration and the big questions provoked by the latest White Paper on health and care integration.

Claire Kennedy, PPL Co-Founder and Managing Partner, reflects on the power of doing what you can, with what you have, where you are.

How can we achieve integration across partner organisations, spanning all staffing levels and bring them together.

Our Consultant Rachel Lewis discusses winter challenges for general practices.

We look at pre-discussed key themes of PCN's and investigating how this could have a positive impact on people's lives..

We are all aware of the essential contribution Allied Health Professions make to improving people’s lives, but did you also know that these professionals play a key role in driving the implementation of successful Integrated Care Systems?

Our co-founder Claire Kennedy shares her thoughts on system working - why it matters and why it is so hard!

Working in partnership is fundamental to what we do, but we know how difficult it can be.  In the first in a new series of blogs, PPL MDs Claire and Simon discuss some of the challenges and some of the lessons learned.

A key objective of these workshops was the identification of barriers to greater Health and Social Care integration and agreeing how to overcome them

The future of our health and social care services is a hot topic at the moment. It’s a key focus for the election and - regardless of what happens on 7 May, it is clear that increased integration will be a key aspect of service delivery going forward.

The key things every councillor should know about the Better Care Fund was a topic explored at one of the micro-surgeries at last week’s LC Summit. Run by independent, specialist consultancy, PPL, the surgery offered advice on how to get the most out of working in partnership with the NHS.

PPL’s co-founders, Claire Kennedy and Simon Morioka, took part in the recent King’s Fund Integrated Care summit, where they helped lead a breakfast workshop on the challenges of implementing joined-up care.

The King’s Fund Integrated Care Summit 2014, co-sponsored by PPL, is fast approaching. In the run up to the event, Principal Consultant Alice Hopkinson explores what integrated care means for provider organisations and their member professionals.

PPL is a key partner in Integrating Care - senior health and social care leaders, managers and professionals in the UK and internationally and dedicated to better-coordinated, user-centred care through practical, clinician-supported solutions.

Claire Kennedy, joint Managing Director of PPL, was featured in an Insight Interview by the Management Consultancies Association (MCA) in their report "The definitive guide to UK Consulting Industry Statistics 2014"

Alice Hopkinson, Principal Consultant at PPL, discusses how to find a way to describe what integrated care might mean to a patient or service-user

On their return from the 14th International Conference on Integrated Care, PPL's co-founders were interviewed by Adam Hewitt, editor of National Health Executive. The subsequent article appeared in the May/June 2014 print edition of NHE

The fourteenth conference on Integrated Care attracted double the number of attendees compared with last year and a far larger number of practitioners (both commissioners and providers) than at previous events. There is no doubt that the issues around providing a holistic and patient-centred approach to healthcare in the UK and Europe are gaining traction.

PPL co-founder and co-managing director Claire Kennedy argues that the key to successful care integration lies in behavioural change, not reconfiguration, and that we must put cynicism aside if we are to make whole-person care a reality

In the first of our Q&As with members of PPL’s extended team, Paul Corrigan discusses resistance to change, integrated care and how to get there.

The LGA has made available its guidance to support Health and Wellbeing Boards in putting together their applications for funding from the Government’s Better Care Fund. With input from the Integrating Care team at PPL, the guidance contains background information and practical support in the form of templates and examples.

Integrated Care is the here, the now and the future of delivering care that is joined up and person-centred, but the scale and complexity of this collective ambition presents a real challenge for health and social care system leaders. PPL's Claire Stidston blogs about her experience of trying to overcome this challenge.

Simon Morioka, PPL’s co-managing director, discusses how our work as part of the Integrating Care team is providing practical help to make person-centred care a reality

Our Co-Managing Director Claire Kennedy has been speaking with a panel of experts on CBI’s Public Service podcast. This podcast looks at the integration of health and social care. How will it work? What are the a barriers? What will it look like from a patients perspective?

‘Integrating Care’ – the team of senior health and social care leaders, managers and professionals powered by PPL and fellow public service consultancy Finnamore – has been appointed by the LGA to support the integration of health and social services nationwide.

PPL's Simon Morioka joined Nesta’s Halima Khan to discuss the aims and impact of our joint People Powered Health initiative. The work draws on six projects around the UK that put patients at the centre of their own care.

PPL's Simon Morioka joined Nesta’s Halima Khan to discuss the aims and impact of our joint People Powered Health initiative. The work draws on six projects around the UK that put patients at the centre of their own care.