The NHS, local authorities and the long-term plan: in it together?

The NHS, local authorities and the long-term plan: in it together? The NHS long-term plan, published in January, attracted a mixed reception in some local government circles. Excoriated as ‘a mind-bogglingly complex list of unconnected solutions’, new Local Government Network boss Adam Lent slammed the ‘hierarchical, status-obsessed culture of the NHS’, earning a swift riposte from Health Service Journal editor Alastair McLellan that local government has a chip on its shoulder about the NHS and should learn from it not criticise it. The King's Fund