Health systems globally are faced with a shift in global demographics of ageing and increasing incidence of chronic conditions. Internationally, key health care reforms rely on improved integration of care to address fragmentation of services, moving to co-operation not competition; to enable better coordinated, more continuous care; and, shifting away from siloed and program-based funding towards new models of funding with more efficient use of resources.
Addressing these challenges require health systems to focus on better integrated care and organisational coordinated care across different settings at local or regional levels.
This brief explores the role of an alliance governance framework in shaping how partners collaborate, communicate, co-commission, and coordinate to achieve shared goals and outcomes. It also highlights how this model can engage policymakers, frontline clinicians, managers, and health consumers, encouraging them to recognise its potential and consider its adoption within their own communities.