Manchester shows how hard it is to integrate health and social care
Three years after the city began its great experiment, progress has been patchy
TOTAL FOOTBALL is a style of play in which positions are fluid and the collective comes above the individual. Developed in the 1970s, its influence can be traced from the Netherlands to Barcelona to Manchester City, whose manager, Pep Guardiola, is a devotee of Johan Cruyff, the style’s most celebrated practitioner. Less well known is that it is also, according to Jon Rouse, the chief officer of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, the model for the city’s new health-care system. Just as players are given freedom to work things out on the pitch, so too are health and local-authority leaders in the conference room.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Total policy”
Britain March 30th 2019
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- Theresa May has united Britain: everyone hates her Brexit deal
- At a forthcoming by-election, potential MPs try to ignore Brexit
- Manchester shows how hard it is to integrate health and social care
- Brexit was scheduled for March 29th. Wasn’t it meant to be easy?
- How high can Britain’s minimum wage go?
- The end of Theresa May
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