Integrated Care Systems Support

Integrated Care Systems

NHS ML is a highly valued partner for enhancing health outcomes and integrated care. Our dedicated support team adopts a partnership approach tailored to meet specific needs, ensuring that we deliver effective solutions that provide optimal value for the NHS. 
With a broad geographical presence, we possess extensive experience in addressing the diverse health and care challenges faced by both urban and rural populations. NHS trusts and various clients across government, health, and social care sectors already benefit from our specialised expertise.
Our primary focus is on promoting financial sustainability, strategic planning, and the delivery of cost-effective services on a large scale for the future. As an outsourced NHS organisation, we strive to enhance service delivery by integrating secondary and primary care systems. This independent support allows us to align with local leadership visions while delivering essential transactional outputs, thereby enabling Integrated Care Systems (ICS) staff to concentrate on their strategic priorities.
We aim to use our medicines expertise to support ICS functions that can be implemented at scale and help develop innovative approaches to improve patient care. Our services are subject to continuous review and automation, underpinned by robust quality assurance processes. 
In our commitment to improving patient care, we support ICS implement scalable solutions encompassing the following services :

  • Developing the ICS medicines strategy including development of area prescribing groups and other medicines management and optimisation strategic committees
  • Prescribing Analytics Service including QIPP opportunities and budget setting documents for annual QIPP schemes and implementation
  • High Cost Drugs - Blueteq validation of drug usage in provider trusts
  • Rebate schemes optimising patient medications and providing significant cost improvement
  • Increasing accessibility of health care services through community pharmacy using digital solutions relieving pressure on both GP practices and trusts  
  • Medicines Safety Assurance Tool (MSAT) supporting medicines safety committees and GP practices
  • Non-medical prescribing service administration and governance through annual declarations
  • GP coding service provides financial assurance for drug prescribing cost allocation within an ICS
  • Medicines prescribing advice newsletter
  • Manging clinical messages on GP clinical systems via Optimise Rx for evidence based, cost-effective safer prescribing

For advice or to discuss how we can support your ICS, please contact us.