Integrated Care Systems

(asked on 13th November 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to ensure that the proposed whole population annual budget for Integrated Care Provider contracts does not create (a) incentives to underbid to obtain contracts and (b) other perverse incentives.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 21st November 2018

NHS England launched a 12 week public consultation on the proposed contracting arrangements for integrated care providers (ICPs) on 3 August 2018 which concluded on 26 October. More information is available at the following link:

https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation/proposed-contracting-arrangements-for-icps/

NHS England will publish a response to the consultation following full consideration of responses and feedback.

The consultation documents provide more detail about NHS England’s current proposals for ICPs, including the proposed integrated budget.

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