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Is the new 'collaboration' in the NHS merely a way to make cuts?

It's hard to see how the latest NHS reorganisation now secretively underway does anything other than put the accountants in charge, and balance sheets ahead of patient care.

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We now have a new prime minister, a new government, a completely new political and economic situation – but the same Secretary of State for health, and no indication of any change in the massive, unprecedented squeeze on NHS spending that weighs on local services like a millstone.

And it's not just health that is feeling the pressure. The latest report from the Association of directors of adult social services spells out a grim picture of the situation in social care.