CCG alert: Integration Transformation Fund

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19 December 2013

The aim of this document is to help local areas, in particular health and wellbeing boards, make the case for integration focused on individuals’ health and wellbeing as well as their quality of life if they become sick.
It supports the case for integrated healthcare services and exploiting the Better Care Fund to take forward transformational change.

Details have been announced of fourteen integrated care pioneer sites.
The scheme is described as “integral” to the implementation of the £3.8bn Integration and Transformation Fund from 2015-16, and that it could lead to the establishment of the first NHS accountable care organisations. The pioneers will be supported by NHS Improving Quality.
The 14 integrated care pioneer sites are

The ITF will be a pooled budget which can be deployed locally on social care and health, subject to a number of national conditions as described in the NHS England Board Paper on the 2015/17 spending round (see below)
This publication provides a roadmap for local areas to plan in the run up to the ITF taking full effect from 2015/16.
To access the ITF each locality will be asked to develop a local plan by March 2014, which will need to set out how the pooled funding will be used and the ways in which the national and local targets attached to the performance-related £1 billion will be met. This plan will also set out how the £200m transfer to local authorities in 2014/15 will be used to make progress on priorities and build momentum.
Plans for the use of the pooled monies will need to be developed jointly by CCGs and local authorities and signed off by each of these parties and the local Health and Wellbeing Board.

Extract from the NHS England Board paper July 2013 Outcome of 2015/2016 spending round for NHS England

"On 26 June the government announced the outcome of the 2015/2016 spending round. ...the NHS, the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department of Health will pool £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 budgets and will require substantial savings to be made in other costs. In order to achieve the full year financial impact of any savings in 2015/2016 CCGs will need to develop and begin implementation of plans in 2014/2015."

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