NHS England, 9 August 2013
- The Local Government Association and NHS England have published their planning ‘vision’ for how the pooling of £3.8 billion of funding, announced by the Government in the June spending round, will ensure a transformation in integrated health and social care.
- The ‘Integration Transformation Fund’ is a single pooled budget for health and social care services to work more closely together in local areas. The publication today provides a roadmap for local areas to plan in the run up to the fund taking full effect from 2015/16.
- The Fund was published as an NHS England board paper July 2013 Outcome of 2015/2016 spending round for NHS England
- "In addition, however, the NHS, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and the Department of Health (DH) will pool c£3.8bn of funds for investment in the integration of health and social care. £3.4bn of these funds will come from clinical commissioning group (CCG) budgets and will require substantial savings to be made in other costs."
- HSJ (25 September 2013) has suggested that GP budgets could be added to pooled integration funds
