A reluctance on the part of some council bosses to progress health and care integration talks is depriving patients of the best treatment, a Greater Manchester council chief has warned.
In an interview with The MJ a year after the establishment of Salford’s Integrated Care Organisation (ICO), the council’s chief executive Jim Taylor claimed some local authority leaders were hesitant to have the necessary conversations with health partners because of a ‘lack of knowledge’.
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