Inclusion Healthcare Social Enterprise CIC Ltd is a Community Interest Company based in Leicester which provides publicly funded health and social care services at two clinics in the city for 900 homeless and vulnerable people.
[2] Paymaster General Francis Maude mentioned the organisation at a speech in December 2014 about the Better Care Fund saying the company could provide care without the NHS's "endless process, bureaucracy and auditing".
Maude related how the company had helped a homeless man who was too poor to pay for his dog to be looked after while he received hospital treatment for leg ulcers.
Inclusion Healthcare wrote "a cheque for £200 or whatever it cost to have the dog vaccinated and put into kennels".
According to Maude this payment meant that a very expensive operation to amputate the man's leg was avoided, and there was a further saving on the "massive disability payments" that would have been made over the man's lifetime.