Joined Up Care Derbyshire is the body responsible for coordinating health and social care across Derby and Derbyshire. It is one of 42 Integrated Care Systems across England, and brings together NHS bodies, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations to deliver better care for the whole community.

The Health and Care Bill 2022 created Integrated Care Boards as replacements for Clinical Commissioning Groups, and establishes in law the role of Integrated Care Partnerships as the committee where health, social care, the voluntary sector and other partners come together as an Integrated Care System (ICS).

Integrated Care Systems have four main functions:

• improving outcomes in population health and healthcare.
• tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience and access.
• enhancing productivity and value for money.
• supporting broader social and economic development.

NHS Derby & Derbyshire’s Integrated Care System is known as Joined Up Care Derbyshire (JUCD); JUCD is the Derby and Derbyshire health and social care partnership for adults and children. JUCD’s priority is to make improvements to the Derby and Derbyshire populations’ life expectancy and healthy life expectancy levels in comparison to other parts of the country, and reduce the health inequalities that are driving these differences.

Further to the boundary changes announced by the government in 2021, NHS Derby & Derbyshire welcomed Glossop into the Derbyshire Integrated Care System in July 2022.

In Derby and Derbyshire, the health and care system has worked in partnership for many years; the duties the Health and Care Bill places on the local NHS and local authorities are welcomed and fit well with the direction being taken to improve the health of the local population. Having an ICS which is now established in law, with a new organisation that reflects the collaborative approach required, is very helpful to what is aiming to be achieve.

More information relating to Joined Up Care Derbyshire can be found by visiting: www.joinedupcarederbyshire.co.uk