LGA responds to white paper plans to radically reform the NHS
Council leaders have warned that local government needs to be an equal partner in the design of any national oversight of social care as the Government sets out its white paper plans to overhaul the NHS.
The Government has said the white paper contains proposals to build on the ‘successful NHS response to the pandemic’, with health secretary Matt Hancock saying they would cure the NHS of red tape.
Chair of the Local Government Association’s (LGA) Community Wellbeing Board Cllr Ian Hudspeth said councils understood the Government’s desire for greater transparency in social care, ‘but councils need to be an equal partner in the design of any national oversight’.
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Health secretary Matt Hancock today (11 Feb) set out plans to reform the NHS and deliver a more joined up health and care system.
A government white paper outlines proposals to make integrated care systems (ICSs) the default across England, reduce legal bureaucracy, and better support social care, public health and the NHS.
The proposals include the development of a data strategy for health and social care, which aims to “bust bureaucracy” by improving the way data is collected and shared.
Under the reforms, the health and care sector will be enabled to “use technology in a modern way” by improving the quality and availability of data, the paper states.
THE first mass vaccination centre offering Covid-19 jabs to residents of Suffolk and north Essex opens today. The centre, at Gainsborough Sport Centre in Ipswich, is one of 30 new centres opening across the UK this week. It is the first mass vaccination centre in the east of England and can vaccinate thousands of people each week. The first to receive jabs at the centre will be those over 70 who have received an invite as well as NHS and care staff. The centre offers an additional option for people to the hospital hubs and GP-led vaccination services already offering coronavirus vaccinations in Suffolk and north east Essex and more will be going live in the next few weeks.
THE first mass vaccination centre offering Covid-19 jabs to residents of Suffolk and north Essex opens today. The centre, at Gainsborough Sport Centre in Ipswich, is one of 30 new centres opening across the UK this week. It is the first mass vaccination centre in the east of England and can vaccinate thousands of people each week. The first to receive jabs at the centre will be those over 70 who have received an invite as well as NHS and care staff. The centre offers an additional option for people to the hospital hubs and GP-led vaccination services already offering coronavirus vaccinations in Suffolk and north east Essex and more will be going live in the next few weeks.