Actuarial skills are immensely relevant in regional National Health Service (NHS) environments and can be used to inform the design of risk-based accountable care system (ACS) contracts. In this article, the authors discuss their recent experience in helping to develop an ACS within a sub-segment of the NHS encompassing a small number of clinical commissioning groups and local councils.
This article was published in The Actuary, the magazine of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.