Ken Jones, Director of Delivery, MIAA writes, As Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) navigate a rapidly evolving health and care landscape, the need for expert guidance on All Age Continuing Care (AACC) has never been greater. With reforms to mental health legislation, increasing financial pressures, growing demand for complex care services and heightened regulatory scrutiny, ICBs need trusted partners who can help them manage risk, strengthen governance and improve outcomes for patients.

This is why MIAA is partnering with Weightmans LLP to deliver a new AACC focused webinar series, beginning with "ICBs and the Law: Key Issues Shaping the Future of Integrated Care" on 24 September. This series of events reflects our commitment to sharing best practice, strengthening system-wide capability and supporting health and care leaders to respond confidently to the challenges ahead.

Why legal knowledge matters in AACC

The legal and regulatory environment surrounding AACC is becoming increasingly complex. Mental health legislation reforms are placing greater emphasis on patient choice, strengthened safeguards, reducing inappropriate detention and expanding community-based support. These changes will have significant implications for commissioning, governance and decision-making across health and care systems.

Against this backdrop, understanding the legal framework is no longer solely the responsibility of legal teams. It has become an essential consideration for operational leaders, finance professionals, commissioners and executive teams alike.

Our webinar series with specialist healthcare lawyers Weightmans LLP to deliver practical insights into the legal issues shaping the future of integrated care. Weightmans are a leading healthcare law firm recognised for its specialist expertise in advising NHS organisations, independent healthcare providers, and healthcare professionals on complex legal, regulatory, and risk management matters.

Sharing expertise

What makes us uniquely positioned to lead conversations around AACC is the breadth and depth of our experience.

As an NHS-hosted, not-for-profit consultancy, MIAA has a long history of supporting public sector organisations. Over the last five years alone, we have worked across six ICB footprints, delivering clinically robust and financially validated AACC programmes that stand up to scrutiny while remaining focused on high-quality patient care.

Because we work with multiple organisations across the North West, we have a unique perspective on what works well, where challenges commonly arise and how different systems are successfully addressing them.

This gives us the opportunity to identify emerging trends, share lessons learned and help organisations benefit from approaches that have already delivered results elsewhere.

ICBs and the Law: Key issues shaping the future of integrated care

The first webinar will explore:

• Managing legal risk and mitigating liabilities
• Meeting statutory obligations effectively and efficiently
• Balancing risk aversion with positive decision-making
• Delivering savings while maintaining compliance
• Understanding the changing legal landscape
• Horizon scanning for future developments

By bringing together legal, operational and clinical expertise, the session will help leaders understand not only what the law requires, but how those requirements can be applied effectively in practice. Book your place here

As health and care systems continue to evolve, sharing expertise across organisational boundaries becomes increasingly important.

By bringing together leaders, practitioners and subject matter experts, MIAA can help ensure that good practice is not confined to individual organisations but benefits patients and populations across the wider NHS.

Join the conversation

Our webinar series with Weightmans LLP marks the beginning of a broader conversation about the future of AACC, governance and integrated care. Book your place here

As trusted partners to NHS organisations across the North West and beyond, MIAA is committed to sharing learning, strengthening capability and helping systems deliver safe, effective and sustainable services. When organisations learn from each other, patients benefit and that is why we are is proud to be leading the conversation on All Age Continuing Care.