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Steve Brown
Healthcare Finance editor
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The government is exploring options to expand the use of pooled budgets to support more integrated delivery of health and public health services.
NHS leaders have welcomed the investment of an extra £200m for the NHS to help with winter pressures.
Department of Health and Social Care aims to have Hospital 2.0 standardised design package available by May next year.
Four years of well-resourced alcohol care teams have paid dividends in the West Midlands in terms of reduced admissions and length of stay.
At the end of July, NHS England chief financial officer Julian Kelly reported that 15 of 42 integrated care systems had deficit plans for the year.
Prevention activities should be seen as essential services that can help meet the immediate pressures facing the NHS.