Innovative projects to support ex-prisoners are failing to get off the ground because of uncertainty about the offender management commissioning agenda, a minister has been warned.
The issue was raised by the third sector capacity-building organisation, Futurebuilders, in a meeting with prisons and probation minister David Hanson.
Futurebuilders chief executive Richard Gutch told Commissioning News after the […]
New guidance aims to help settle disputes between PCTs in differentlocations and between PCTs and local authorities aboutwho is responsible for paying for a person’s NHS care.
In the 32-page document, Who Pays? Establishing the responsible commissioner, the DH gives advice on potential flash-points – such as paying for looked-after children or continuing care patients who […]
Local government leaders are lobbying the government to divert NHS funding to councils to pay for preventative services for older people.
The Local Government Association said the chancellor should hand over 0.5 per cent of the NHS funding settlement for 2008-11 to councils.
LGA chairman Sir Simon Milton said: ‘In the next three years alone, there will […]
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