General Resources - Funding and Commissioning

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Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)

The professional body for finance staff working in healthcare. Has a number of useful publications that people trying to navigate the way services are...

Local Government Association - Integrated commissioning and provision

Local Government Association's page on integrated commissioning. Visit the website

NHS integrated Care System Benchmarker (requires institutional log-in)

Wide range of benchmarking projects. Informs annual planning and 5-year strategic plans by providing insights into population health need, and balance...

NHS funding allocations to CCGs

NHS England is responsible for determining allocations of financial resources to integrated care boards (ICBs) from April 2023. This page...

NHS Future Focused Finance

An organisation that champions and support best practice and finance education. They work both with finance professionals within the healthcare...

NHS Making the most of the money: efficiency and the long term plan

NHS Improvement report on efficiency and saving, which might have some pointers as to where there is scope to set up new services.  Visit the...

Scottish Integrated Care Fund Guidance

Scottish government's guidance on applying for funding to the Integrated Care Fund. Visit the website

Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) - Finance and budgets in integrated care

Has guides and webinars on both integrated care and the Better Care Fund with many case studies and practice examples. There is...

The Better Care Fund Programme

The Better Care Fund (BCF) programme supports local systems to successfully deliver the integration of health and social care in a way that supports...

Welsh Integrated Care Fund Guidance

Welsh government's guidance on applying to the Integrated Care Fund. Visit the website