Is the Better Care Fund doomed?

Jeremy Cooper examines the tensions between the NHS and local government bedevilling current attempts to integrate health and care services, and suggests a radical conversation about the shape and change of pace involving hospitals is needed.

If we're being honest the Better Care Fund hit a bump in the road a few weeks ago. 

In his keynote speech on integration at NHS Confederation conference on 5 June, the better care champion and Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb didn't even mention better care until the last couple of minutes, and then almost as an aside. 

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