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The message from senior officers’ group Solace is clear: adult social care reform, neighbourhood health and devolution must be treated not as separate agendas, but as interconnected parts of a wide...

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE

National Care Service: Why local government must be central to social care reform

By Dr Catherine Howe | 20 October 2026

The idea of a National Care Service needs 'some joined-up thinking which properly links devolutio...

PUBLIC HEALTH

Population health is only possible with public health

By Yvonne Doyle | 01 October 2026

Embedding public health expertise across NHS structures is essential to improve population health...

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE

Hard truths facing the NHS

By Matthew Taylor | 21 July 2026

As Andy Burnham arrives at No10, Matthew Taylor argues that real NHS transformation demands upfro...

NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH

Neighbourhood health cannot exist without local government

By Cllr Dr Wendy Taylor MBE | 08 July 2026

As the Local Government Association launches a new online Neighbourhood Heath Hub this week, Cllr...

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE

Wes' end of term report

By Matthew Taylor | 03 June 2026

Matthew Taylor looks back on Wes Streeting’s time at the helm of the Department of Health and Soc...

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE

Rethinking the Better Care Fund

By Mark Palethorpe | 22 April 2026

Moving integrated care from rhetoric to reality calls for an urgent review of how resources like ...

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE

Closing the collaboration gap

By Victor Adebowale | 02 April 2026

Victor Adebowale looks at how to move from rhetoric to reality and make collaboration between loc...

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE

How tech can help support underserved residents

By James Townsend | 29 July 2025

Technology offers on-demand, scalable and sustainable solutions that can work alongside councils ...

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE

Making a 'neighbourhood health service' a reality

By Alison Griffin | 22 June 2025

Health and care partners in the capital are coming together to make visions of a ‘neighbourhood h...

HEALTH

Finding flickers of light

By Matthew Taylor | 03 June 2025

Despite the obstacles to multi-agency working, there are green shoots in joint efforts to produce...