Integrating Health and Social Care Budgets: A case for debate
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Over the last decade, Britain's public services have faced a number of challenges related to a changing population profile, growing demands from more assertive users, and the need for a more sustainable model of delivery. The UK's huge fiscal deficit will now add the most pressing and complicated challenge of all: cutting expenditure on public services while maintaining quality and user satisfaction.
The paper analyses the policy landscape, the key determinants of modern public services and the main financial aspects of integrated budgets. It recognises that there are two different approaches to integrating budgets - an 'individually-centred' approach and a 'system-centred' approach - and argues that the best way to create a more responsive and financially effective service model is to combine the two.
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