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A Repeat Prescription of ‘INO’? – a critical view of the White Paper on Health and Social Care

By Craig Dearden-Phillips MBE, Managing Director of Social Minds The new White Paper leaked last week falls so short in its depiction of how integrated local health and care system should function that we are left, yet again, making it up as we go along. What we get is a mixture of ‘Whitehall-knows-best’ interventionism, a …

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Baked-in or Frozen-Out?

What does ‘independence’ mean for Public Service Mutuals in the new NHS World of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs)Craig Dearden-Phillips MBE, Managing Director, Social Minds Public service spin outs (or public service mutuals as some prefer to call them) regard their sovereignty as a hugely valuable part of their raison d’etre.  But in the new ICS …

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