Leaders from a county’s health and social care organisations have agreed to work together to create a new neighbourhood health and care system, despite there being no funds for the project.
Oxfordshire’s NHS and council partners will draw up designated “neighbourhoods”, each having their own services, as part of the area’s NHS 10 Year Plan.
The areas would have a population of between 50,000 to 100,000 people, based on the geography of where people live and work, rather than current NHS services.
Dan Leveson, director of places and communities at Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB), said he thought it was a move “in the right direction”.