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SOCIAL CARE

'Wicked questions' need resolving on health and care integration

16 February 2022

The integration White Paper will help move the NHS towards a new partnership with local governmen...

HEALTH

Joining up care for people, places and populations: a genuinely radical leap forward

By Steve Barwick | 16 February 2022

There is a great deal in the Integration White Paper to be welcomed and it represents a radical s...

HEALTH

Councillors allowed to join integrated care boards

By Martin Ford | 10 February 2022

Controversial guidelines excluding councillors from Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) are to be withd...

SOCIAL CARE

White Paper aims to improve links between social care and NHS

By Laura Sharman | 09 February 2022

The Government has outlined plans to bring local government and the NHS closer together under its...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Inflation's a concern for councils and residents

By Sir Stephen Houghton | 01 February 2022

Councils and residents are facing severe price rises that will hit the more deprived hardest, say...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Government could scrap mandatory vaccines for care staff

By Laura Sharman | 01 February 2022

The Government is considering scrapping compulsory COVID vaccines for health and care workers in ...

HEALTH

White van man on... bird flu

26 January 2022

Batten down the hatches. Just as Plan B has been kicked into touch and we can all head off to the...

HEALTH

Local government: too big and too small?

By Professor Colin Talbot | 26 January 2022

Local government could be strengthened and made more democratically responsive by making it small...

LEGISLATION

Are councils boarding the ICS bus?

By Ann McGauran | 26 January 2022

Integrated care systems are the cornerstone of the Government’s health and care reforms, but are ...

POVERTY

Cost of living crisis needs fixing – fast

By Heather Jameson | 26 January 2022

Local government will have to brace itself for the rising tide of need, going back to offering su...

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