The devo-health agenda is ‘more delegation than devolution despite promises about full-blooded change,’ a new report from the IPPR think-tank has found.
It comes as shadow home secretary Andy Burnham, who has previously warned against a ‘Swiss-cheese NHS where some bits of the system are operating to different rules or have different powers or freedoms,’ becomes Labour’s candidate to be Greater Manchester’s first elected mayor.
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