...-reliance in social care Local government Professional autonomy Paper type Case study In 2015, the Dutch government decentralized the delivery of social care to local government, based on the assumption that they would possess a closer understanding of their constituents’ needs. The legislative...

... parts of the United Kingdom retain these two tiers of local government, with 26 County Councils being responsible for providing services such as education, social care, fire and public safety, sub-divided into 192 District Councils that provide services such as rubbish collection, recycling, housing...

... conditions Local government Health and social care Integrated care Alzheimer's Society 331 Approximately 43.8m people live with dementia globally (GBD 2016 Dementia Collaborators, 2019). Dementia is a syndrome which progressively impairs a person's ability to carry out everyday activities...

... through a local governance structure using a set of collaborative principles. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents personal reflections of the programme manager about the efficacy of the model, its sustainability and the problems encountered. It sets out the principles defining the model...

... on 1 April 2013 (Murphy, 2013). The overall purpose of the boards is to bring together bodies from the NHS, public health and local government, including Healthwatch as the patient's voice, jointly to plan how best to meet local health and care needs. In practice, HWBs are expected to join up...

... boards Local government Involving communities, citizens and service users in the design and delivery of public services is a not new challenge. But, it is one which has often been met by government and other public service providers with responses which seem “stale, over- and misused, cynically...

..., and in the boardroom. Furthermore, change at a senior level is an essential condition for sustainable, widespread change at the front line. Transforming services is particularly hard where integrated care relies on input from both the NHS and local government. Joint working across the two sectors is becoming...

...Richard Humphries; Richard Humphries Purpose This paper aims to examine the role of health and wellbeing boards in the context of the Government's reforms introduced by the Health and Social Act 2012 and the fundamental challenges facing the NHS and local government; it also aims to assess...

.... Director for People and Deputy Chief Executive, Staffordshire County Council. Representative from Local Involvement Network (Healthwatch when constituted). Having a shared ambition to build a health and local government commuity that delivers improved outcomes in the most efficient and effective...

...Gerald Wistow Purpose The purpose of this paper is to take “a long view” of initiatives taken to promote integration between local government and the NHS with the objective of seeking to understand why they have achieved consistently disappointing results. Design/methodology/approach...

... principles of integration derived from a historical literature review, and makes the comparison with principal features of new proposals for promoting integration between NHS and Local Government in England. Findings There is a relatively good fit between the principles and proposals but gaps were...

...). Also significant were differences in the scope of responses. Some respondents took a broad view of the context of strategic needs assessment, as being across the NHS, local government and beyond – often linked to the local strategic partnership (LSP). In contrast, other responses focused more narrowly...

... functions. Local authorities should move quickly to influence and lead the new partnerships. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Health and social care Local government Health and well‐being NHS White Paper Topical theme A Liberated NHS: Intentions, Impact and Implications for Local...

... Overview and Scrutiny Health Inequalities Local Government NHS Accountability Implementing Health overview Scrutiny: Meeting the Challenge in one Local Authority Jonathan Wistow UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM Sajda Banaras UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE ABSTRACT This article provides insights into how the health...