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<p>‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’ sets out a plan to better integrate
general practitioner (GP), community, mental health and hospital services and work
more closely with home care and care homes so that people avoid hospital stays where
possible.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is driving forward health service transformation
through new care models such as the Primary Care Home, which brings together a range
of health and social care professionals to provide enhanced personalised and preventative
care for their local community and through the Enhanced Health in Care Homes vanguards
which are working with care homes to provide joined up primary, community and secondary
care, and social care to residents of care and nursing homes, via a range of in reach
services.</p><p> </p><p>The Better Care Fund (BCF) has incentivised local areas to
work together better, pooling budgets to join up health and care services. As part
of the BCF funding requirements, local areas have to produce data to show that they
are reducing the number of unplanned acute admissions to hospital.</p><p> </p><p>By
March 2019 the whole of England will be covered by a fully Integrated Urgent Care
Service which will improve patient access to services that include evening and weekend
appointments with GPs and a clinical advice and treatment service accessed through
the NHS 111 telephone number to ensure that patients receive timely treatment advice.</p>
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