Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 11
11
Accepted
Paragraph: 42
ICS success depends on long-term decision-making and assured future funding.
Recommendation
The four key purposes of ICSs are all dependent on taking a long-term approach. In order to fulfil them, ICSs need to be supported to make long-term decisions and have as much certainty as they can about upcoming funding.
Government Response Summary
The government commits to supporting ICSs by improving funding certainty, pledging to align allocation publications across various sectors and provide as much notice as feasible for future years. They highlight indicative allocations for the Public Health Grant 2024-25 as an example of this commitment.
Paragraph Reference:
42
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
The government is committed to supporting local areas to work in an integrated way to plan care across their communities and agrees that having clarity over financial allocations is an important enabler of integrated working. We will work together across government to align the publication of allocations for social care, local government, public health and the NHS as much as possible, and to give as much notice as is feasible of allocations for future years. For example, the government has already published indicative allocations for the Public Health Grant for 2024 to 2025 to support systems to plan and is committed to publishing the confirmed 2024 to 2025 allocations before the end of this calendar year.