The opportunity for the Better Care Fund (BCF) to transform services could be missed, a health consultancy warned today.
MHP Health said current practice and funding challenges suggested there was a danger the BCF would be used to meet rising social care needs.
It called for more evidence about effective interventions that support integration.
A MHP investigation into how councils are using health money that has already been transferred to social care found that less than 4% of the funding had been allocated to mental health services in 2012/13 and 2013/14.
MHP said this was ‘despite the fact that achieving parity of esteem between mental and physical health is a priority for NHS and social care services’.
To read MHP’s analysis, visit: www.mhpc.com/health/all-in-this-together/
