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1. LEICESTERSHIRE’S BETTER CARE FUND:
Moving to Implementation

2. What is our plan for integration?
• Our integration programme is made up of two parts:
– 4 themes from the ‘Better Care Fund’ (2 year plan)
– 5 areas of joint working with partners
Better Care Fund
Plan - 4 themes
(Section 75)
Continuing health
care
Special
educational needs
and disability
Community
equipment
Emerging priorities
– help to live at
home
1 2 3
4 5
Emerging priorities
– whole life
disability
6

3. Theme 1:
Unified prevention offer
•Bring together prevention
services in communities
including housing expertise
•Better coordination so that
local people have easy access to
information, help and advice
Theme 2: Integrated,
proactive care for those
with long term conditions
•Build on support offered by GPs
and community care:
– Introduction of case
management for over 75s
– Changes to how records
and data are shared
Better Care Fund Themes x 4

4. Theme 3: Integrated
urgent response
•2 hour community response, to
avoid unnecessary hospital
admissions (including preventing
admissions due to falls)
•Work towards access to care 7
days a week
•Integrated service for frail
older people
Theme 4: Hospital
discharge and reablement
•Improve care when people are
discharged from hospital -
especially the most frail
e.g. new bridging service
•24/7 service across health and
social care, with a single point of
access
Better Care Fund Themes x 4

5. How will we measure success?
• Reduce the number of permanent admissions to residential and
nursing homes by 5.77% by 31/03/15
• Increase the number of service users still at home 91 days after
discharge to 82.19% by 31/03/15
• Reduce the number of delayed transfers of care by 1.55% by
31/12/14
• Reduce the number of avoidable admissions by 1.96% by 30/09/14
• Reduce the number of emergency admissions due to falls by 3.58%
by 31/03/15
• Improve Patient experience

6. Contact and Further Information
Officer to contact
Cheryl Davenport
Director of Health and Care Integration (Joint appointment)
Cheryl.Davenport@leics.gov.uk
0116 305 4212
07770 281610
Weblink: Health and Wellbeing Board Papers (01/04/14)
http://politics.leics.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=1038&MId=4131&Ver

7. Contact and Further Information
Officer to contact
Cheryl Davenport
Director of Health and Care Integration (Joint appointment)
Cheryl.Davenport@leics.gov.uk
0116 305 4212
07770 281610
Weblink: Health and Wellbeing Board Papers (01/04/14)
http://politics.leics.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=1038&MId=4131&Ver