STPs
Integration progress 'slower than anticipated'
Progress on health and social care integration has been ‘much slower than anticipated,’ senior councillors have heard.
Whiteman urges STPs to set own agenda
Sustainability and transformation partnerships (STP) should seize the initiative to push forward with their own agenda, a senior sector figure has urged.
If only adult social care was as easy as plug and play
Andy Begley asks why can’t there be a common way to connect systems to enable health and adult social care systems to work together in an integrated manner?
We must collaborate to make homes suitable for the elderly
Paul Smith explains why the recommendations of the Communities and Local Government Committee’s report on housing for older people are so important.
Health funding wasted on short-term bailouts, watchdog warns
Extra health and social care funding is being used to tackle short-term pressures rather than long-term transformation, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned.