Health

By Phil Hope | 07 February 2019

Now is the time for local government, combined authorities and mayors to work with the NHS, says ...

FINANCE

NHS sustainability 'very difficult' without a long-term social care settlement

By Abdool Kara | 06 February 2019

A series of significant National Audit Office reports on local services have emerged so far this ...

Council calls for Hancock intervention

By Naomi Larsson | 04 February 2019

Telford & Wrekin Council has called for health secretary Matt Hancock to urgently intervene in a ...

FINANCE

Council cuts threaten NHS plan

By Michael Burton | 04 February 2019

Cuts in council social care and public health budgets threaten the viability of the ambitious NHS...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Ministers accused of 'irrational policy-making'

By Chris Mahony | 29 January 2019

Ministers have been accused of irrational policy-making by funding prevention in the NHS while fo...

HEALTH

Think-tank: Give councils powers of abolished DWP

By Chris Mahony | 21 January 2019

Councils and their health and education partners should be handed responsibility for supporting ‘...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

London's adult social care services need a long term solution too

By Ray Puddifoot | 16 January 2019

Making a success of the NHS Long Term Plan and providing high-quality care to Londoners all depen...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Where do councils fit into the NHS plan?

By Michael Burton | 15 January 2019

Last week’s publication of the NHS Long Term Plan signals a fundamental shift towards community-b...

SOCIAL CARE

NHS long term plan only offers part of the solution

By Ian Hudspeth | 14 January 2019

Chairman of the LGA's Community Wellbeing Board Ian Hudspeth says until social care is fully fund...

SOCIAL CARE

Early intervention's not enough without funding

By Heather Jameson | 09 January 2019

There will never be enough money for the behemoth that is the NHS - and the real under-funding i...

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