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Minister Helen Whately’s speech at today’s NHS Confederation Health beyond the hospital conference.

• Updated: 27 September 2023

An independent review of integrated care systems (ICSs) has today published its final report.

• Updated: 4 April 2023

The Disclosure and Barring Service and Ann Craft Trust have partnered, helping organisations develop safer working practices.

• Updated: 22 November 2022

Details have been published of how the £500 million discharge fund will be given to help free up hospital pressures and reduce strain on NHS.

• Updated: 17 November 2022

The Better Care Fund policy framework for 2022 to 2023 has been published to better join up health and social care for people who need it most.

• Updated: 19 July 2022

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sajid Javid, gave a speech at the conference on Wednesday 23 March 2022.

• Updated: 23 March 2022

Health and Social Care Secretary visits North West and West Midlands health and care services to thank staff.

• Updated: 16 February 2022

The Health and Social Care Secretary visited the East of England on day one of his Road to Recovery tour.

• Updated: 14 February 2022

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Sajid Javid spoke at the NHS Confederation ICS Leaders conference

• Updated: 10 November 2021

British Embassy Bucharest is inviting project proposals to support the delivery of activities and support services to prevent Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking (MSHT) in Romania and support the reintegration of victims.

• Updated: 24 September 2021

More than £6.9 billion has been committed to continue driving integration between health and social care and support local recovery from the pandemic.

• Updated: 19 August 2021

Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlines proposals for a Health and Care Bill to support recovery from the pandemic. Originally published in The Times.

• Updated: 11 February 2021

New proposals launched to join up health and care services and embed lessons learned from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

• Updated: 11 February 2021

People with learning disabilities or autism who could be better supported in their community will have their discharges from hospital accelerated.

• Updated: 16 July 2020

We have launched a project to explore how people weigh up the benefits and disadvantages of health and social care data sharing for research.

• Updated: 14 April 2020

The funding will help patients who no longer need urgent hospital treatment to return home, making at least 15,000 beds available during the coronavirus outbreak.

• Updated: 19 March 2020

Vulnerable people across England received almost 13 million extra hours of home visits from social care workers last year, new statistics show.

• Updated: 7 October 2019

The government is making changes to existing secondary legislation to make it easier for the first integrated care providers (ICPs) to be set up.

• Updated: 14 February 2019

New alliance aims to bring the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector’s voice and expertise into national policy making.

• Updated: 17 July 2017

David Cameron gave a speech setting out his plans for "a 7-day NHS, safe in our hands - for every generation to come".

• Updated: 18 May 2015