There are key principles which underpin the Provider Collaborative model:
- Experts by experience and clinicians leading improvements in care pathways.
- Collaboration between Providers and across local systems.
- Managing resources across the collaborative to make sure that money is spent on support for people at or close to home and help make sure that people don’t go into hospital when they don’t need to.
- Working with people and groups locally, including people from the voluntary and community sectors.
- Improvements in quality, patient experience and patient outcomes driving change.
Provider Collaboratives aim to enable specialist care to be provided in the community to prevent people being in hospital if they don't need to be and to enable people to leave hospital when they are ready.
NHS-Led Provider Collaboratives mark a new era for specialised mental health, learning disability and autism services. Building on the success of New Care Models for tertiary mental health services, NHS-Led Provider Collaboratives will drive improvements in patient outcomes and experience. NHS-Led Provider Collaboratives will also bring much needed focus on tackling inequalities for their local population and increasing the voice of lived experience in improving the quality of care provided.
NHS-led Provider Collaboratives: improving mental health, learning disability & autism services
This short video by NHS England explains what Provider Collaboratives are.
Overview of the Impact Framework
As part of NHS England’s role supporting large scale change programmes, the Impact Framework has been developed to systematically capture the impact of these programmes of work.
The Impact Framework has been developed based on approaches used by others in the field of developmental evaluation, tailored to support improvement work in complex systems.
