Out of STP with social care?

By Simon Bottery | 28 June 2016

I have bad news for you integration: you are no longer the NHS's favourite word.

Over the last three years it has felt as though integration of health and social care was the buzz phrase or word on everyone's lips. So much so that it felt as though integration was being seen as the panacea to most issues, especially funding for social care.

But at the NHS Confederation conference, which brings together all the major trusts providing and commissioning services, it had vanished as though part of a Stalinist rewriting of history.

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