Health, public health and social care – for adults and children.
This is a shortened version of a LGiU policy briefing written by Fiona Campbell. The full version of the briefing, and all others, is available to LGiU members through this link. The Department of Health has published a mental health outcomes strategy for people of all ages. The emphasis in the strategy on early intervention and early years,…
The coalition government is committed to a radical devolution of power: to communities, professionals and local government. In healthcare, this approach will transform the way that services are provided. Local authorities will have new responsibilities to bring together health, social care and public health at the local level. All local agencies will be expected to…
The Health and Social Care Bill is extremely important for councils. This briefing gives more detailed analysis of the Bill's provisions that impact on local government and comments on whether it strengthens local democratic accountability.
The Department of Health and Department for Transport commissioned this resource to help local areas take account of health issues when developing local transport plans.
This briefing summarises new policy, research and publications issued in December and January that relate to health and social care.
This initial policy briefing outlines the main measures in the Health and Social Care Bill and discusses their implications for local authorities and the NHS.
Health and Social Care Bill – all 367 pages and explanatory notes as well… There weren’t many surprises in the Bill published yesterday, but it did provide more details about, for example, the new health and wellbeing boards and about public health in the new regime and it is the start of a long parliamentary…
From the media coverage this week on the about-to-be-published Health and Social Care Bill, and listening to speeches from David Cameron and Andrew Lansley, you might be forgiven for thinking the ‘social care’ part of the title was a mistake – no-one mentioned social care. And the King’s Fund have just set out ten questions to…
The DH has published the NHS Operating Framework for 2011/12 and an Outcomes Framework setting out outcomes and indicators for the NHS Commissioning Board. This briefing summarises each Framework and briefly considers issues for local government.
For the convenience of members, this briefing provides links to all the briefings we have published on the health white paper, the public health white paper, the various subsequent consultation papers, and on responses to the reforms.