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The long-awaited integration of health and social care seemed a step closer with the promise in the NHS long-term plan of a nationwide structure of Integrated Care Systems by 2021. ICSs hold up real prospects of more joined up commissioning and services in support of local populations.
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Covid-19 may have put the brakes on organisational progress this year. However, the national response to the pandemic has also thrown into sharp relief structural and funding problems in the health and care system, and this may yet serve to accelerate action.