Democratically accountable local authorities face an imminent ‘culture clash' when seeking to commission services jointly with the ‘command and control model of the NHS' – a report issued this week by insurance giants, Zurich Municipal, has claimed.
The 2014 senior manager's risk report – produced in association with SOLACE and released at this year's summit in Liverpool – argues councils are ‘worried about being sucked into the maelstrom of NHS funding, management and funding at the extreme'.
