1/6 This is an excellent, important, new report on how providers are collaborating to provide better care: nhsproviders.org/media/691546/d…. It marks start of a major new work programme for @NHSProviders, working with @NHSEngland, to support providers to collaborate even more effectively. 
2/6 The report gives examples of all types of provider – hospital, community, mental health and ambulance trusts, primary care, social care and the voluntary sector – collaborating effectively to improve care. And on different footprints - in places, within ICSs and across ICSs.
3/6 What’s particularly striking is the incredibly diverse range of collaboration. This brings important lessons for national policy makers. As we set out in the report, any national policy framework on provider collaboration needs to be strongly facilitative and enabling…
4/6 …It needs to recognise local providers are best placed to work out what forms of collaboration are needed to improve care and outcomes in their area. Any national policy framework must avoid trying to impose a single, one size fits all, tight, strait jacket approach.
5/6 The report also points to the critical success factors in enabling effective collaboration. Building strong relationships, ensuring senior leader buy in and alignment and those senior leaders role modelling collaborative ways of working and behaviours are all key.
6/6 There's also an excellent, linked, blog in @HSJnews from @Saffron_Policy: hsj.co.uk/service-design…. Particularly striking how the last 15 months and the pandemic have led to much greater levels, and an acceleration, of all types of provider collaboration.
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