{"id":4491,"date":"2026-06-16T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/resources-insights-data\/reports-and-strategies\/the-better-care-fund\/better-care-fund-2016-17\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:54:06","slug":"better-care-fund-2016-17","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/resources-insights-data\/reports-and-strategies\/the-better-care-fund\/better-care-fund-2016-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Care Fund 2016\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Better Care Fund is a government initiative&nbsp;which creates a local single pooled budget to incentivise the NHS and local government to work more closely together around people, placing their well-being as the focus of health and care services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reports on this page monitor local progress within Devon in relation to the Better Care Fund through a set of national and local indicators, relating to admissions to hospital, delayed transfers of care, re-ablement services, care home admissions, patient experience and dementia diagnosis rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Approval <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devonhealthandwellbeing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/downloads\/2015\/01\/Devon-Approval-Letter-141223-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> from Barbara Hakin, National Director, Commissioning Operations, NHS England relating to the Better Care Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest reports are available below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Better Care Fund\u00a02016-17 submission documents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/sites\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/_layouts\/15\/guestaccess.aspx?docid=0e304e5ba6202447cbca6c665b8f42a91&amp;authkey=AXTPH6YGgbBx908FuMfNCzY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Devon Better Care Fund Narrative Plan 2016-17<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/sites\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/_layouts\/15\/guestaccess.aspx?docid=0aa5572c9b4c4423d9778aa0e1bccac01&amp;authkey=AVQ-s7YM8iMglQpByql_Lrw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Devon Better Care Fund Planning Template 2016-17<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Further Better Care Fund supporting documents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/sites\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/_layouts\/15\/guestaccess.aspx?docid=0a93cf67289c842eea5d8d88f24bdb6bf&amp;authkey=AcT8miJxbdaVrFzKvwi-w6s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Better Care Fund Framework Agreement 2016-17<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Better Care Fund is a government initiative&nbsp;which creates a local single pooled budget to incentivise the NHS and local government to work more closely together around people, placing their well-being as the focus of health and care services. The reports on this page monitor local progress within Devon in relation to the Better Care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":1055,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4491","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 16:59:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4495,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4491\/revisions\/4495"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}