The pioneering Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre, opened summer 2018, is the first of a new class of National Health Service facilities designed to cater for the needs of an increasingly elderly population without the recourse to hospital admission.

The last decade has seen fundamental challenges to the NHS. Funding has been constrained while demand has increased, particularly for the treatment of older people with complex and continuing illnesses. Hospitals are accommodating many elderly patients on a long term basis who could be better served by being supported in their own homes.

The NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group resolved to transform this costly and inefficient situation by planning an entirely new way of delivering health services. Integrated care brings together a range of specialities to provide a more holistic approach to health, care and support needs. In 2013, the CCG approached, Citycare and Medical Architecture to help them plan and develop a new Integrated Care Centre.