A Better And More Sustainable NHS And Social Care

The review will be conducted in collaboration with the NHS Executive, health care professionals and experts in international health care systems. [...] • We will significantly reduce the administrative cost base and bureaucratic burden within the NHS and restore more decision making to self-managed teams of frontline health care professionals who will receive appropriate training in health care management. [...] A Better And More Sustainable NHS And Social Care Page 1 • We will significantly reduce the administrative cost base and bureaucratic burden within the NHS and restore more decision making to self-managed teams of frontline health care professionals who will receive appropriate training in health care management. [...] • We will revise NHS pensions arrangements to discourage early retirement and encourage retired health care professionals to return to part-time or full-time NHS employment • We will make the NHS Primary Care Networks co-terminus with Local Care Networks (local authorities), introduce joint board meetings, and subsequently merge them. [...] We will develop a system whereby ICSs will employ care workers with long term contractual arrangements with local authorities and act as contractual providers of the workforce to private social care providers (including care homes) allowing ICSs to balance pressures between the care system and acute trusts.