Integrating health and social care – the next steps: Law firm Blake Morgan takes stock of where we are and looks at moving forwards

With all the noise surrounding the need to integrate health and social care, there is a risk that it will drown out the essence of integrated care which is improving the patient experience. That is not to say that greater value for money cannot be achieved through more efficient and streamlined service delivery, but if the patient’s experience of receiving health and social care services has not improved, then care has not been integrated.