The Leadership Centre has released a new report on health integration, questioning whether the NHS is on the right track.

Health Integration: The Best Way to Secure Better Outcomes? looks at the weak track record of many, many attempts to integrate health provision, and asks if this isn’t the wrong approach entirely.

Concluding that health integration focuses on “sorting out the back office”, the report finds that this usually leaves out citizens entirely. Instead, it argues, a renewed look at “Population Health” approaches trialled in the UK and USA has a far greater chance of bridging the gap between health provision and patient demand, particularly in light of the unprecedented demands on the NHS.

You can download a copy of the Health Integration report here.