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Monitor believes that greater integration of health and care services can bring many benefits to patients. 皇冠体育app regulator is consulting on draft guidance that makes clear Monitor can take action if providers block efforts to deliver joined-up care for patients.

This is the first time the regulator has produced guidance to help providers comply with the integrated care condition of the NHS provider licence. 皇冠体育app licence is Monitor鈥檚 main tool for regulating NHS providers and contains a specific condition requiring providers not to block the delivery of integrated care when it can benefit patients.

Monitor鈥檚 new guidance sets out core principles - such as working effectively with other health and social care organisations locally in order to identify and improve ways of delivering person-centred, coordinated care for patients.

皇冠体育app guidance also gives examples of situations which might lead to action from the regulator. 皇冠体育appse include:

• failing to work with commissioners to identify how local services can be better coordinated
• refusing to discuss with other providers the use of shared care plans for patients who need to be treated by more than 1 NHS provider
• allowing unnecessary delays in the handover of patient records when a patient moves from one provider to another

Monitor is now seeking feedback on the guidance from providers, commissioners, patients and others.

Toby Lambert, Director of Strategy and Policy at Monitor said:

Patients want the NHS to be joined-up, with providers of health services working together to deliver the best care possible. Providers must not stand in the way of integrating care, and we鈥檙e clear that if they do, we鈥檒l use the regulatory powers we have.

But we know that most NHS providers want to integrate the care patients receive. That鈥檚 why today鈥檚 guidance is designed to help them deliver the care patients want.