£2.1 billion has been allocated this year to a Sustainability and Transformation Fund (STF), which ministers said would enable the NHS to transform services and meet the ambitions set out in the Forward View. However, £1.8 billion of this funding is being used to reduce deficits among NHS providers, leaving just £300 million to invest in new services this year.
Three London MH Trusts are planning to work together to make back office efficiencies and improve care pathways. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
Dudley contract for multispecialty community provider includes mental health services as well as adult social care, LD and physical healthcare services. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
NHS England's Mental Health Director. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
As Birmingham and Solihull join the Integrated Personal Commissioning Programme (IPC), John Short explains why he believes IPC will work well for people with enduring mental health needs, as a way to offer people the flexibility they need to find their own route to recovery.
Lord Carter used his session to set out the next phase of his work to support improvements in the operational productivity of mental health, community and acute providers.
As a non-executive director of NHS Improvement, Lord CAreter also gave his insights into the challenges and opportunities facing NHS provider boards.
In the face of increased demand for care and constrained finances, while the Better Care Fund, the principal integration initiative, has improved joint working, it has not yet achieved its potential. The Fund has not achieved the expected value for money, in terms of savings, outcomes for patients or reduced hospital activity, from the £5.3 billion spent through the Fund in 2015-16.
Controversial plans to transform and integrate health and social care services require at least £9.5bn of capital funding – but NHS leaders don’t have the cash and will ask for demands to be ‘reviewed’ and ‘refined’.
A BMA investigation into the 44 STPs (sustainability and transformation plans) in England has revealed the vast sums needed just to create the infrastructure to deliver the projects, with costly building projects and investment in community facilities vital to the plans.
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Public Health England (PHE) has today (30 August 2017) launched a ground breaking new tool for local public health teams identifying the most cost effective mental health programmes. One of these 8 initiatives is an innovative resilience programme in schools that results in an estimated saving of £5.08 for every £1 invested (over 3 years).
A pioneering mental health crisis service run by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust has received more than 14,500 calls in its first year.
The First Response Service – which can be contacted via the NHS 111 helpline and selecting option 2 - operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and gives people in crisis direct access to mental health advice and help them to avoid unnecessary visits to hospital.
In the first 12 months the number of people visiting local accident and emergency departments has fallen by 21 per cent.
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