DH, 9 July 2014
- Speaking at the annual conference of the Local Government Association in Bournemouth, Simon Stevens set out plans for a new Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC) programme, which will for the first time blend comprehensive health and social care funding for individuals, and allow them to direct how it is used.
- This new approach builds upon, but is in addition to, joint work on the Better Care Fund. It also extends and combines current work on ‘year of care’ NHS commissioning, personal budgets in ‘continuing care’, and the early experience of 14 ‘integrated care pioneers‘.
- The new IPC programme does not require any structural reorganisation in either the NHS or local authorities.
- Includes a number of case studies
- See here for the LGA webcast
