Historical Commissioning and Integration

Background What is the Better Care Fund? The main aim of the Better Care Fund (‘BCF’) is to transform local services in order to ensure that people are provided with better integrated care and support, and in doing so help local areas to manage the common pressures within this sector and improve their own long […]

Planning service development in health and social care now requires tremendous breadth of knowledge and energy, to keep abreast of the policy initiatives emerging from the Department of Health. The latest missive comes in the form of an Agreement (Building Capacity and Partnership in Care) (October 2001), concluded between the Department, representatives of the independent

is the shorthand title for a topic which means different things to different people at different levels.   At Chief Executive level as between Health & Social Services (and as between Directorate Heads within any one authority) it can mean co-operating and making exceptions to policy, to avoid disputes going to court.   For the

Without introducing any new legislation or regulations, the DoH has made it clear in guidance that it expects people discharged from hospital to have made available to them, 6 weeks’ worth of residential care, if they need it as a preventative or rehabilitative service, from the NHS, even though it is residential care. Only £405 million, out of

Local and health authorities exist, and their staff only have powers, by virtue of legislation. Therefore, if decision making processes, in terms of who is calling the shots, are inconsistent with legislation, the authority will be acting unlawfully. An example may be found in Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council, ex parte Daykin in which staff who were not

What is the Better Care Fund? The main aim of the Better Care Fund (‘BCF’) is to transform local services in order to ensure that people are provided with better integrated care and support, and in doing so, help local areas to manage the common pressures within this sector and improve their own long term