“If integrated care is successful, it can totally subvert our model for health and care”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oum used her keynote address to call for the NHS to be more \u201cmindful\u201d of the impact it has on local economies, emphasising the role of the NHS as key local employer to regions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf integrated care is successful, it can totally subvert our model for health and care,\u201d said Oum, who stressed that resources must be \u201crefocused and rebalanced\u201d in order to target energies onto health prevention, early intervention and reducing levels of ill health and inequality.<\/p>\n Following Oum’s keynote address, a series of panel discussions and case study presentations were provided to an audience of more than 150 local ICS, NHS and local authority leaders and community representatives. Key topics of the day included:<\/p>\n While topics may be familiar to many who will have attended health and care conferences, this Delivery Forum was unique in that it was entirely focused on the West Midlands region. “If integrated care is to be developed locally, then it must be discussed and debated locally,” said PPP Head of Content, David Duffy, who also stressed that, in the shadow of the Hewitt Review, it is vital that, now more than ever, that local leaders are given the necessary platforms to identify the challenges and opportunities in integrated care most relevant to them.<\/p>\n Also speaking was Tapiwa Mtemachani, Director of Strategy and Partnership for Black Country ICB. Emphasising the importance of partnership and of assets to transform care presented by the local community, Tapiwa Mtemachani, Director of Strategy and Partnership for Black Country ICB. Mtemachani emphasised the importance of partnership and prevention in bringing down stubborn levels of deprivation and health inequalities seen across the Black Country, which has the second most deprived population of any of the 42 ICSs in the country.<\/p>\n![\"ICS](\"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ICS_DELIVERY_FORUM_082resize-scaled.jpg\")
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