Non-Executive Directors and integrated care: time to think system

Non-Executive Directors and integrated care: time to think system It’s hard to keep track of the changing vocabulary of sustainability and transformation plans, accountable care organisations and, most recently, integrated care systems. Even as a supposed expert in health and social care, it can be hard work keeping up with the latest policy buzz phrases. For non-executive directors (NEDs) of NHS trusts, who hail from a range of backgrounds often outside the NHS, keeping up can be even harder. This might help to explain why NEDs generally do not seem to have played much of a part in sustainability and transformation partnerships. Yet at a time when the NHS is facing arguably the biggest challenges in its 70-year history, the need for NEDs to understand these changes and what they mean for their own role and responsibilities has never been greater. The King's Fund