Friday 19 September 2014

Better Care Fund fast-track projects: cautious, innovative and heroically optimistic

Better Care Fund fast-track projects: cautious, innovative and heroically optimistic Strategies for five areas have been approved, revealing how local areas plan to meet targets for cutting emergency admissions and saving money

Will new integration fund be a catalyst or catastrophe?

The deadline for submitting redrafted plans for the £3.8bn Better Care Fund is on Friday. But strategies for five fast-track areas have just been approved, revealing what this controversial scheme, the biggest ever push to integrate health and social care, might achieve.

The funds programme team supported by NHS England, the Local Government Association and Department of Health is wary of wildly optimistic claims about what can be done in 2015-16; one of the criteria is that delivery mechanisms must be believable. Continue reading... The Guardian

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