The long-delayed social care green paper is being held up by partisan politics, the health secretary has claimed.
Matt Hancock said plans to bring local authorities and the NHS closer together were struggling to get cross-party support and that reforms must be a top priority in the Comprehensive Spending Review.
The health secretary’s comments to council leaders at a conference, as reported on the Public Finance website, included a call for health and wellbeing boards to be used as the main vehicle for reform.
