The £3.8bn pooled budget to boost health and social care, announced as part of the June spending review, will be available from 2015/16 but NHS England has said that it is ‘essential’ that CCGs and local authorities ‘build momentum’ in 2014/15.
CCGs and local authorities have until March 2014 to apply for the money and any bids need to be signed off by both parties as well as the local health and wellbeing board.
Conditions for accessing the integration transformation fund (ITF) include better data sharing between health and social care which NHS England said will require ‘the resolution of some information governance issues by the DH’.
