Health & Social Care

With around 400 separate local organisations each responsible for commissioning different health and social care services, the current organisational landscape is fragmented and unsustainable. Options for integrated commissioning: beyond Barker  explores the options for implementing that recommendation.

‘Making it better together: A call to action on the future of health and wellbeing boards’  sets out ways in which Health & Wellbeing boards and local commissioners, the Local Government Association (LGA) and NHS Clinical Commissioners might work better with each other and with their communities to improve the health of their residents.

With out-of-hospital care needing to become a larger part of what the NHS does, the NHS Confederation new quick guide answers the simple question, 'what are community health services?'

Clinks’ latest report, ‘Tackling inequality in the Criminal Justice System’ highlights how different groups have successfully advocated for the needs of people from equalities groups and minority communities, including people with learning disabilities, older offenders, young Muslim men, women in prison and LGBT offenders.