Joint Financing Across Health and Social Care - Audit Commission Report

This report reviews the joint financing and integrated care arrangements between NHS bodies and councils with adult social care responsibilities. It builds on our previous publication, 'Joint Financing Across Health and Social Care' that explained the practical implications and legislative framework for joint financing.
It considers how these arrangements are used, focusing on learning disability, mental health and older people - areas where service users most often need health and social care.
The report's recommendations and examples of notable practice aim to help national and local bodies better understand the options available, how to use them and to achieve better outcomes for service users. Click here to view the report.

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Living Longer, LIving Better - Conference 25th June 2009

This one day conference will look at improving physical health and health care for people with mental health problems. It will examine public policy and professional practice and discuss commissioning and service delivery in primary and secondary care services. The afternoon is devoted to a discussion of barriers to service improvement and practical examples of joined up working from Yorkshire and Kent which will help you develop your own local services. Click here for further information and to register!

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Further Local Involvement Networks (LINKs) Guides available

The sixteenth and seventeenth Guides in the LINks Guide series are now available.
Guide 16 - ‘Community development’ is designed to help people involved with LINks understand how LINks can contribute to community development around health and well-being. The guide has been developed in collaboration with the NHS Alliance and the Community Development Foundation.
Guide 17 - ‘LINks and Overview and Scrutiny Committees working together’ aims to clarify the
roles of Overview and Scrutiny Committees (OSCs) and Local Involvement LINks within the
framework for patient, service user and public engagement in health and social care and to
provide advice for OSCs and LINks that develops their understanding of their respective and
distinct roles, suggesting ways of joint working as a means of maximising their contribution to
public accountability of health and social care.
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Moving beyond sponsorship: interactive toolkit for joint working between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry

The purpose of this toolkit, produced by the Department of Health and the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries, is to encourage NHS organisations and staff to consider joint working as a realistic option for the delivery of high-quality healthcare and provide the necessary information and have easy access to the tools which will help to enter into joint working. Find out more about the toolkit here.