UCLH’s role as an integrator for Camden and Islington
UCLH is a key partner in new arrangements to provide more joined-up care in our area between hospitals, GPs, community services, mental health services, local councils and the voluntary sector.
This new way of working is a key part of the NHS 10-year plan, which is clear that if the NHS is to remain sustainable more care should be delivered closer to people’s homes. It is also a key part of the Government’s plans to create a neighbourhood health service in England.
In London, this ambition is reflected in the neighbourhood ‘integrator’ model, which brings together hospital, community and primary care providers to coordinate care around defined populations.
Each London borough has a lead ‘integrator’, and UCLH has been confirmed as the joint integrator for Camden working with the Camden GP Federations.
In Islington, UCLH is part of an alliance of four local organisations including UCLH, Whittington Health, Islington Council and Islington GP Federation who will collectively act as the integrator.
The aim is to turn our collective ambitions for neighbourhood health into a reality – improving population health, tackling inequalities, and moving more care closer to home through prevention, early intervention, and more joined-up local services.
Whilst this is a new way of working for UCLH, it builds upon our track record of leading a number of integrated care programmes in our local communities including the post-Covid service, stroke rehabilitation, complex long-term conditions and inclusion health work with socially complex patients.
For more information about neighbourhood health services in North Central London, visit North Central London Integrated Care System.
How UCLH works with our community partners
UCLH has a long history of working with our partners to deliver care closer to people’s homes - providing more accessible, personalised and responsive care, and improving population health.
This links below provides more detail on a small number of the projects that UCLH is involved with working in partnership with community providers such as GPs, local councils and the voluntary sector.
The Complex Long Term Conditions programme, delivered by the NCL Health Alliance, is testing new models of care to improve management of LTCs, including fewer appointments, better decision making and easier access to services. UCLH is working with other providers to develop and test a new coordinated care model for people with complex long-term conditions.
The Find and Treat outreach team cares for thousands of the most vulnerable, homeless and high-risk people each year across London – testing for, and treating, serious illness, preventing onward infection, and improving public health.
The UCLH post-COVID service works with community services to provide support and assessment for adults with ongoing illness following COVID-19 infection. The aim is to develop a management and integrated recovery plan for patients and to support their ongoing recovery as best as possible.
The UCLH@Home service is designed to reduce acute hospital stays for patients and to prevent admissions for clinically stable individuals. Instead of remaining in hospital, these patients receive hospital-level care at home or in their current place of residence, before transitioning to the care of their General Practitioner (GP).