Policy paper reveals what we can learn from a decade of national pilot programme in integrated care in England

For more than a decade the English NHS has pursued integrated care through three national pilot programmes. The independent evaluators of these programmes here identify several common themes that inform the development of integrated care.

The policy paper reflects on the three national pilot programmes, revealing key themes identified through evaluation and  what thee pilot programmes achieved. It concludes that the pilots in all three national programmes made some headway against their objectives but were limited in their impact on unplanned hospital admissions.