Table 1.

Overview of the pilots.

Pilot	Number of Practices	Total Practice Population (approx)	Integration Innovation	Professional background of evaluation participants
A	12	53,000	Collaboration with acute sector diabetes team to provide development and clinical guidance to general practice rather than out-patient appointments.	GP
B	3	31,500	Use of a formal improvement methodology to reduce unplanned admissions and facilitate discharge of older people from acute hospital.	GP Nursing
C	5	13,000	No clear integration innovation identified.	GP Practice manager
D	1	11,000	Series of small scale pilots to address priority needs, including community chaplaincy, link worker to connect with local resources, transitional beds in nursing homes to facilitate early discharge and case management for those with multi-morbidities.	GP
E	9	65,000	During programme developed process through which paramedics could directly access GPs for discussion of patients at risk of admission.	GP
F	1 (but with 10 sites)	61,500	Initially proposed enhancing of multi-professional teams but then focussed on use of common IT system to support integration between different practices within organisation.	GP Practice manager