Accountable care system
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An accountable care system is a system of healthcare provision which is intended to be integrated, and in particular to merge the funding of primary care with that for hospital care, therefore providing incentives to keep people healthy and out of hospital. It has features in common with accountable care organizations in the United States.
Accountable care systems were organisations in the English NHS which in some respects are intended to replicate the features of the American accountable care organization. They were defined by NHS England as an area ‘in which commissioners and providers, in partnership with local authorities, take explicit collective responsibility for resources and population health’.[1] After a great deal of hostility to the use of the term it was announced in February 2018 that these organisations were in future to be called integrated care systems, and that all the 44 sustainability and transformation plans will be expected to progress in this direction.[2]