Exclusive: BCF to be frozen and become ‘minimum option’
The better care fund will be frozen in real terms next year in the spending review agreement to be announced today, HSJ understands. After 2016-17 it will be continued only as the “minimum option” in a menu of choices for local health and social care integration.
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