Guidance: Funding transfer from the NHS to social care 2014: directions

Guidance: Funding transfer from the NHS to social care 2014: directions The directions and explanatory note concern the transfer of £1.1bn in the financial year 2014 to 2015 from the NHS to local authorities for social care.

This funding consists of £900m to support adult social care which has a health benefit and an additional £200m for preparing for implementation of mandatory pooled budgets between local authorities and clinical commissioning groups in financial year 2015 to 2016 (i.e. the Better Care Fund). The local authority and clinical commissioning groups must agree together how to use the money.

These directions should be read together with the conditions relating to payments between NHS bodies and local authorities. Department of Health