Cordis Bright believes that the successful integration of health and social care has the potential to fundamentally change the quality and effectiveness of how services operate and the experience of the end user. We also know that this will not be easy to achieve as it will require different and sometimes challenging approaches to collaboration between different parts of the system and different professional disciplines. 

There is an emerging body of evidence about what works, drawn from real experience of delivering integration on the ground. The material included here begins to draw out this learning and provides useful insights into progress so far.