Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department is making on integrating health and social care in West Sussex; and if he will make a statement.

Mr David Mowatt, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Community Health and Care: ntegration policy. Its overarching aims are to keep people living independently at home and prevent them from needing more support.

In 2015-16, it was a minimum £3.8 billion nationally and local areas pooled an additional £1.5 billion, taking the total to £5.3 billion. In 2016-17, it will be increased to a mandated minimum of £3.9 billion and early analysis of BCF plans indicates that local areas have once again pooled over and above the minimum, taking the total to approaching £6 billion.

The BCF has set the foundation, but we want to go further, faster, to deliver joined up care. The ways local areas integrate will be different, and some parts of the country are already demonstrating different approaches, which reflect models the government supports.

West Sussex’s BCF plan outlines its vision for health and care services. The vision for 2019-20 remains a shift from reactive to proactive health and social care to enable more people to have healthier, safer and more independent lives in their own home and community for longer, receiving the right care in the right place at the right time.

The latest available BCF performance report can be found on the the West Sussex Health and Wellbeing website at:

http://www2.westsussex.gov.uk/ds/cttee/hwb/hwb131016i6a.pdf

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