Delivering care closer to home: blueprint plan
8 July 2026
This practical guidance provides the key factors to consider when creating a local blueprint for service transformation, particularly for initiatives that bring care closer to home.
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It includes a comprehensive set of questions, prompts and considerations that will help you think broadly, plan thoroughly and ensure nothing important is overlooked.
By working through this document, you can systematically plan and structure your case for change, demonstrating the evidence, engagement and rationale needed to support service redesign in your local system. Providing detailed answers and citing relevant stakeholders will strengthen your case and make it easier to transfer the content into business cases, planning documents or local approvals.
Every integrated care system (ICS) organisation will have its own processes and procedures for developing a case for change, so this is not a one-size-fits-all tool. The questions are designed to spark your thinking and may need adapting to suit the scope, scale and context of your service change. Use it as a flexible guide to explore what is most relevant for your organisation and population, while ensuring robust planning and transparent decision-making.