Case for support: Helping you have resource discussions with your ICS

Use our Case for support guidance to help you have discussions with ICS about Healthwatch resourcing, including effective collaboration and acknowledging the additional burden of delivering functions within the ICS.

The guidance helps show the value of Healthwatch to an integrated care system. In particular, how the work of Healthwatch can help ICSs achieve its aims and meet needs.

This tool should be used alongside conversations with ICS stakeholders and not sent without prior discussion with them.

How to use the template

As this is a PowerPoint template, you can easily make changes to include local details and context, as well as any specifics relevant to the partnership under discussion. You could also personalise the template using:

• Quotes of support and testimonials from local people
• Facts and statistics relevant to the ICS
• Details of all the Healthwatch requiring support and the work you do
• Specific projects for which support is needed and costs
• Local photography

Whilst this PowerPoint template gives you the tools to provide an overview either in person or digitally, we recommend following up with a more detailed proposal. This should set out the specifics of the relationship, and should focus on how the ICS can meet their priorities, rather than Healthwatch's needs.

We hope the new Case for Support will prove to be a valuable tool in discussions with the ICS in your area, acting as an introduction to how a partnership could develop and a starting point for discussions.