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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.
Bradford District Care is opening first overnight service for CYP in crisis - aim is to reduce children with mental health issues presenting at A&E and also to roll out across W Yorks STP area. Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Northumbria Foundation Trust will hold single budget for acute, mental health, community services and adult social care from April 2017. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
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.
£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.
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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.
The Five year forward view for mental health was developed by the Independent Mental Health Taskforce for England and was published in February 2016. This implementation plan, led by Claire Murdoch, the new national mental health director, and Tim Kendall, national clinical director for mental health, sets out how the plan will be delivered, including clarity on the new funding. The report makes it clear that success depends on services being sustainable in the long term.
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.
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).