One of the main consequences of last year’s pause in the passage of the Health and Social Care Bill was a blizzard of amendments to the statutory duties of every single NHS organisation. Amongst the many contradictions that arose from these amendments, there was one constant. By the time it became an Act, after the Bill was amended and re-amended in the Lords every single possible organisation had had a duty to create integrated care laid upon it.
Last week’s mandate for the NCB from the Secretary of State has begun to put some flesh on the bones of how it will be expected to carry this out,
