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Great editorial. It's not LAs or NHS, it's LAs and NHS. The expertise of the National Support Teams, so hastily dumped by the Coalition, needs to be rediscovered and applied. My view is that on inequalities, the NHS has an awful lot to offer - but the new duties will need to be worked hard to pull it into line. There should be no excuses, under the last govt DH did not performance manage its inequalities targets hard enough - when it knew what the NHS needed to do to achieve them. That's a failure of the old NHS management culture in the DH, now in the NHSCB. I hope the new duty will open their eyes to their responsibilites, a good sign that Steve Field is there to pull them into line.