Collaboration Between the Health and Social Services: Part I, A Case Study of Joint Care Planning

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Central government has a long-standing interest in the co-ordination of health and welfare resources: an interest which produced the Hospital Plan of 1962 and the complementary long-term plans of local authority health and welfare departments in 1963; which lay behind the re-organisation of Whitehall departments in 1968 and the creation of a single ministry – the Department of Health and Social Security – with responsibility for all health and personal social services; and which was further advanced following the Seebohm Report by the creation of unified social services departments by the 1970 Social Services Act. Subsequently, the re-organisation of local government and the NHS opened up new opportunities for closer liaison and greater co-operation by organising the new health and local authorities into matching areas of administration; by putting a statutory obligation on health authorities and their corresponding local authorities to collaborate so as to secure the health and welfare of the people of their areas; and by establishing the machinery for collaboration at the local level in the form of joint consultative committees and their supporting teams of officers.

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