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’.