Give our councils control over the health service

By Sam Clayden | 08 March 2017

Control of the health service should be wrestled from the NHS and handed to local government to improve its running, a pair of academics has argued.

George Jones, emeritus professor of government at the London School of Economics, and John Stewart, emeritus professor of local government at the University of Birmingham, demanded a ‘big bang approach to shake- up, reconfigure and integrate health and care’.

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