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11th-12th November 2025
We are proud to support NHS Providers ACE
We are a transformation partner to health and care systems.
We guarantee to deliver on today’s most critical challenges and design for the future, achieving better outcomes for people and greater financial resilience.
Hear about how we’re delivering the outcomes that matter alongside our clients:
Care Closer to Home in Manchester – delivering now, building for the future
Exchange 10 – Breakout Theatre, NHS Providers Conference, Manchester Central
Explore how health and care partners in Manchester are transforming urgent and emergency care through the ‘Care Closer to Home’ programme. You’ll hear how system-wide collaboration is impacting across the pathway, from reducing emergency department wait time and hospital occupancy through to intermediate care. This session will also show how the programme forms a key step in a multi-year, three-stage ‘horizon point’ plan to deliver a new model of care – bringing more neighbourhood and targeted, preventative services closer to home.
Vanessa Gardener – Chief Delivery Officer, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Bernie Enright – Executive Director for Adult Social Services, Manchester City Council
Tom Hinchcliffe – Deputy Place-Based Lead for Health and Social Care Integration, NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board
Chair: Professor Jenny Simpson – Senior Advisor, Newton
Navigating the challenges in delivering genuine integration of care
Satellite Theatre C, Exhibition Hall, NHS Providers Conference, Manchester Central
Discover how leaders from North East Essex are practically navigating the challenges of delivering neighbourhood health and care through INTs to some of the most deprived citizens in the country. Leaders from primary and secondary care will share honest reflections on the challenges of working across organisations and systems, traversing both practical and cultural barriers.
Paul Little – Strategic Director for Service Development, ESNEFT
Freda Bhatti – Primary Care Partner, Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board
Chair: Tara Donnelly – Senior Advisor, Newton
Opportunities to get involved
Integrated Neighbourhood Teams Community of Practice
The UK Government has launched a bold new phase in health reform by initiating the Neighbourhood Health Service, a key component of the 10-Year Health Plan. Neighbourhood Health is seen as a foundational enabler for delivering outcomes-based, Integrated Health Organisation (IHO) models of care.
In the more immediate term, Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) are a key delivery mechanism for scaling Neighbourhood Health – multi-disciplinary teams that provide proactive, planned, and responsive care based on population needs.
Partners in Care and Health, NHS Providers and Newton are bringing together their skills and experience to offer a national, sector-led Community of Practice to facilitate Place teams to develop and accelerate models of on-the-ground delivery of INTs.
What will be different about the Community of Practice:
- The programme will be practical and implementation focussed;
- Content will be guided by its members, supported by expert insights, focusing on the topics that participants most value;
- Potential insights and solutions will be tested and co-produced with the group before being shared with the sector as a whole;
- Mutual honesty will be at the heart of the programme, enabling genuine learning and application.
Interested in participating?
Find out more about the Community of Practice here
OR
Sign up here or email [email protected] to express your interest.
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