To help improve the lives and outcomes of people with a learning disability and autistic people, we have, in partnership with NHS England, developed a set of guiding principles for integrated care systems and their local partners.
The development of Integrated Care Systems has meant more of a focus than ever before on the importance of strong partnership working across health and local government. When organisations and teams work together, and when people and families receive support in a joined-up way, we know that people experience better outcomes.
To help improve the lives and outcomes of people with a learning disability and autistic people, we have developed, in partnership with NHS England, a set of guiding principles for integrated care systems and their local partners.
We hope that these principles encourage a partnership approach, across health, local government, and wider partners, within local systems, and promote better outcomes for the people that we all serve.
Following the publication of these principles, we published a letter, in partnership with NHS England, which identifies five key actions that will have the biggest impact on supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people to leave mental health hospital.
Nearly 10,000 discharges to the community have been achieved since 2015. The letter asks colleagues working in integrated care systems across health and social care to make a concerted effort to continue to help people with a learning disability and autistic people leave hospital when they no longer need hospital care.