Social care providers and integrated care systems: opportunities and challenges

Social care providers and integrated care systems: opportunities and challenges An opportunity but also a challenge for newly created integrated care systems (ICSs) is how to best engage with adult social care to deliver on ambitions to support the health, wellbeing and independence of their populations, addressing workforce challenges and designing integrated, person-centred services. It was for this reason that NHS England asked The King’s Fund to explore with adult social care providers their hopes and expectations for integrated care systems, their current level of engagement in ICSs and what could be done to improve involvement.