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BBC News
01-07-2025
- Health
- BBC News
New services planned to reduce hospital pressures
More people needing medical attention in Oxfordshire will be treated at home or in a community setting, under new plans announced by health joint plan between Oxfordshire's health and social care services, called the Better Care Fund, will prioritise spending on treatment options closer to year's fund amounts to £80.6m, which is part of a wider annual shared health and social care fund of more than £500m. The fund, pooled between the local NHS and Oxfordshire County Council, previously focused on improving discharge rates from hospitals. Dan Leveson, director for places and communities for Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (ICB), said: "What we really want to do is get all the support in and around people, at home and in their communities, so that we can avoid people going in to the hospital in the first place."With health and social care partners reporting a 20% reduction in the average length of a hospital stay in Oxfordshire, money is now being prioritised to reduce the number of avoidable admissions into Leveson said: "There is a percentage of people at the moment who are admitted into hospital for non-urgent admissions, that if we had different care, if we had access to hospital at home, district nursing, social care and reablement, then they can stay home."Yearly NHS spending for Oxfordshire is estimated to be between £1.5bn to £2 include to further develop Oxfordshire's single point of access for community services, making it easier to access services like home nursing visits and intermediate care rather than going directly to region's urgent community response system will also be expanded to offer an alternative to paramedics taking people to hospital when they can be better cared for at neighbourhood teams will be broadened, with teams specialising in areas including physiotherapy and community nursing being able to provide hospital-level treatment at a more local level, alongside the already established Hospital at Home service. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
BBC News
06-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
NHS bosses plan merger amid bid to halve running costs
An NHS commissioning body has said it is looking to merge with another area as it manages a major reduction in funding. A representative from the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire & West Berkshire Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB) has said there are plans to combine with East Berkshire to create a new new structure could be in place as soon as next April and would result in job plans have emerged after the government told integrated care boards across the country to reduce their running costs by 50%. The BOB ICB was formed in July 2022, replacing three clinical commissioning groups in the organisation decides how to spend the NHS budget in the area it planned restructure would see a new body formed to include East Berkshire, which is currently covered by the Frimley Integrated Care Leveson from BOB ICB outlined the plans at a health scrutiny committee in Oxfordshire. 'Difficult for us' He said: "In the South East we have currently six integrated care boards."You can imagine with a reduction of 50%, we're not going to have six in the future. "None of this is confirmed and this is a fairly rapidly moving picture."The BOB ICB will combine with East Berkshire to create a new integrated care board, this is the proposal that's in at the moment."We're merging and creating a new organisation and reducing our costs across that organisation, so there is going to be a restructure there is going to be a new operating model and there is going to be competitive processes for jobs."He said that the 50% reduction is on top of a 30% cut that the care board had implemented in the last year - and said it would mean job losses."We are going to lose people and that is going to be difficult for us," he new structure would be have to be agreed by the Health Department of Health and Social Care has been approached for a comment. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
