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Meeting: 07/04/2022 - Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 49)

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Joint Report of the Interim Director of Integrated Care (Devon County Council and NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group), attached.

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Minutes:

The Board received the Report from the Interim Director of Integrated Care (Devon County Council and NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group) on the Better Care Fund, which covered latest performance. 

 

The Better Care Fund (BCF) was the only mandatory policy to facilitate integration between Health and Social Care, providing a framework for joint planning and commissioning. The BCF brought together ring-fenced budgets from Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) allocations, the Disabled Facilities Grant and funding paid to local government for adult social care services. The Health and Wellbeing Board had oversight of the BCF and was accountable for its delivery.

 

The Report set out the latest performance for the following BCF metrics:

 

-       Avoidable Admissions

-       Length of Stay

-       Discharge to Normal Place of Residence

-       Residential Admissions

-       Reablement

 

Nationally, Government had indicated its intention to continue with the BCF for 2022/23 and in that year to introduce further development of the BCF for future years; and the national announcement of Planning and Reporting Guidance for 2022/23 would be published in May.

 

Discussion covered voluntary sector investment and close working in cluster areas to develop community services.

 

RESOLVED that the Board note the latest performance data and national requirements.

 

 

 

 

 



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