Exclusive: BCF to be frozen and become ‘minimum option’

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The better care fund will be frozen in real terms next year in the spending review agreement to be announced today, HSJ understands. After 2016-17 it will be continued only as the “minimum option” in a menu of choices for local health and social care integration.

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