Health and social care may merge

Tue, 29 Oct 2013

The Chief Minister says he is looking at merging two major government departments but no firm decision has yet been made.

A merger of the Departments of Health and the Department of Social Care may be considered under radical re-shuffle plans.

Although nothing is set in stone, Allan Bell says work behind the scenes is ongoing to work out whether such a merger could work.

He says as it stands his reform agenda isn’t coming along as quickly as he’d like: