Delivering the Forward View: NHS Operational Planning Guidance

NHS England and NHS Improvement published Delivering the Forward View: NHS Operational Planning Guidance on Thursday 22nd September 2016. It provides local NHS organisations with an update on the national priorities for 2017/18 and 2018/19, as well as updating on longer term financial challenges for local systems.

While there is no reference housing, the Better Care Fund (which includes the allocations for Disabled Facilities Grants) is mentioned in paragraph 69, and states:

‘CCGs and Upper Tier Councils will need to agree a joint plan to deliver the requirements of the Better Care Fund (BCF) from 2017/18 via the Health and Wellbeing Board. The plan should build on the 2016/17 BCF plan, taking account of what has worked well in meeting the objectives of the fund, and what has not. CCGs will be advised of the minimum amount that they are required to pool as part of the notification of their wider allocation. BCF funding should explicitly support reductions in unplanned admissions and hospital delayed transfers of care. Further guidance on the BCF will be provided later in the autumn.’