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By Nicola Perrin, Chief Executive of AMRC, and Jacob Lant, Chief Executive of National Voices. Both Nicola and Jacob are members of one of the Department of Health and Social Care’s committees responsible for making recommendations for the New Years Honours List.

In the NHS, summers do not last long, and with each passing year, the planning for next winter gets earlier and earlier. Given the pressures we all experienced last year, NHS England have already written out to systems across the country to set out the plans in emergency and elective care.

A new King’s Fund report, ‘Actions to support partnership: Addressing barriers to working with the voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) sector in integrated care systems’, aims to support leaders in statutory and VCSE organisations by identifying and testing approaches to facilitate more equal partnership working.

While welcoming the focus the government’s White Paper could bring on integration, National Voices CEO Charlotte Augst warns ‘the track record of achieving better, more equitable, outcomes for people on the basis of mergers and restructures of national bodies is pitiful’.

As the new Integrated Care Systems get underway in difficult circumstances, Clare Woodford from Macmillan Cancer Support reflects on how National Voices membership has created opportunities to shape the rollout of the reforms.

As COVID-19 impacts all of our lives, everyone across the country is now getting used to a new normal. It’s changing the way we interact with others, our ability to work, maintain our health, and how we access food, care, and medical support. At Independent Age we hear from people in later life on a daily basis and we know that many were already facing significant challenges before the virus took hold of our country.