10.06.15
NHS and LGA chiefs meet Integrated Personal Commissioning leaders
NHS England and the Local Government Association hosted a session at the IPC Summit yesterday for the nine areas pioneering blended comprehensive health and social care funding.
The Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC) programme was set out in October 2014 and went live in April 2015 with the first wave of nine demonstrator sites – enabling more than 10,000 high-need services users to gain control of their own integrated health and social care budgets.
IPC is a joint initiative led by NHS England and the Local Government Association, with other partners including Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) and Think Local Act Personal (TLAP). It is one of the first steps in the delivery of the NHS Five Year Forward View.
The areas taking part in the programme are Stockton on Tees, Barnsley, Cheshire West & Chester, Lincolnshire, Luton, Tower Hamlets, Hampshire, Portsmouth and South West Consortium.
Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, and Carolyn Down, chief executive of the LGA, met the heads of CCGs, NHS providers, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations that have signed up to be part of the programme.
What they had to say was shared widely on Twitter:
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