All about: Integrated care systems (ICS) and Kingston Place
Integrated care systems (ICS) are a partnership of primary care, hospital, social care, mental health and voluntary and community health and care services.
What is an integrated care system?
Integrated care is about giving people the support they need, joined up across the NHS, local councils and community partners. For Kingston, this means being part of a wider South West London strategy which includes representatives from the NHS, Local Authority and Voluntary Sector.
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What is Place?
The Integrated care aystem (ICS) is about connecting different levels of care at 'neighbourhood' level (30,000 - 50,000 people), 'place' level (250,000 - 500,000 people), and 'systems' level (1-3 million people).
The South West London Integrated Care System is made up of six places (boroughs) servicing a population of 1.5 million. These six Places are co-terminus with our six Local Authority boroughs: Kingston upon Thames, Richmond upon Thames, Wandsworth, Merton, Croydon and Sutton.
There are 41 local neighbourhoods within these places. These 41 neighbourhoods are aligned with the Primary Care Networks that have served their communities since they were established in 2019.
Kingston Place Based Partnership Committee
The Kingston Place Based Committee brings together the borough’s Health and Wellbeing Board and Kingston's local system leaders to focus on the health and wellbeing of people who live in Kingston.
Who's on the Kingston Place Committee?
- Dr Annette Pautz, convenor, SWL clinical director for Kingston
- Jo Farrar, NHS executive place lead
- Denise Madden, deputy executive place lead
- Dr Nick Merrifield, primary care development lead
- Ed Montgomery, NHS community lead
- Ashton Ntuli, mental health trust lead
- Sam Morrison, executive director for adult social health and care
- Stephen Bitti, Healthwatch Kingston
- Sanja Djeric-Kane, voluntary sector lead
- Nic Kane, chief nurse
- Rachel Stokes, carers lead
- Tara Ferguson-Jones, communications and engagement lead
- Alison Danks, Achieving for Children
