Kings Fund, September 2014
- The commission recommends moving to a single, ring-fenced budget for the NHS and social care, with a single commissioner for local services. It proposes a new approach that redesigns care around individual needs regardless of diagnosis, with a graduated increase in support as needs rise, particularly towards the end of life.
- Key proposals include
- a single ring-fenced budget,
- a single local commissioner (possibly the Health and Wellbeing Board) and
- a new care and support allowance which removes the “battlelines” between who pays for care – the NHS or the local authority.
