Urgent and emergency care (UEC) services across England have been, and continue to be, under sustained pressure.
In response, we are undertaking a series of coordinated inspections, monitoring calls and analysing data within local areas. This helps us identify how local services work together to ensure patients receive safe, effective and timely care.
This is part of a pilot that tests a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach to assessing services across an Integrated Care System (ICS). An ICS consists of all healthcare partners in a specific geographical area including, but not limited to:
- care homes
- GP practices
- NHS111 providers
- community services
- mental health services
- NHS trusts including ambulance services.
These inspections help us see how services respond to the challenges they face as individual providers, but that require a system wide response. They also support ICSs to better understand the journey people experience when seeking urgent care. This helps identify where they can make improvements.
Each provider receives their own report with our findings, which includes a system summary. We do not produce separate reports for each ICS as a whole.
UEC system wide inspections completed to date
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly integrated care system
Gloucestershire integrated care system
Norfolk and Waveney integrated care system
North East London Health & Care Partnership integrated care system
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough integrated care system
Kent and Medway integrated care system
Leicestershire and Rutland integrated care system
Cheshire and Merseyside integrated care system
Lancashire and South Cumbria integrated care system