Common Contracts
1 similar Better Care Fund Section 75 Agreement contracts
WARD None Specific DIRECTOR Stuart Rowbotham- Health and Well-BeingBetter Care Fund Section 75 Agreement • March 30th, 2015
OUTCOME / BENEFITS TO THE COMMUNITY The Better Care Fund (BCF) has been created to promote the integration of health and social care services, to provide a better service and develop efficiency across the system. The BCF pooled budget under section 75 of NHS Act 2006 agreement will allow joint commissioning and provision of integrated health and social care services that avoid unnecessary hospital admissions, delayed transfers of care and residential care home admissions RECOMMENDATION That the Health and Wellbeing Board agree the section 75 pooled budget and proposed arrangements. SUMMARY OF REPORT NHS England requires Councils and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) to hold the BCF pooled budgets in a section 75 agreement. Wokingham’s section 75 agreement schedule 3 (attached as appendix 1 ) separates the budget into two pools, one to be hosted and commissioned by the Council, the other by the CCG. Wokingham’s BCF is close to the minimum amount prescribed by NHS England with only £90
