Pickles brands health service key to local goverment progress

摘要

The integration of health and social care services will change the face of local government, communities secretary Eric Pickles has proclaimed. Speaking at the launch of the Local Government Information Unit's report on council support for self-funders, Mr Pickles, said: I'm absolutely convinced that local government will not look the same afterwards.' 'I think we can offer the health service something that they don't quite have,' he added. 'The best thing about local government is it is quick to change. It knows how to challenge the orthodoxies in a way that the health service does not.'