City councillors have hit out at a new "revolutionary" health reform, calling it a missed opportunity to improve NHS and social services.

Birmingham councillors complained that the Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) had been drawn up by high-handed NHS bosses but had neglected social care, frontline GPs and the general public.

It is supposed to improve services by encouraging health and social services to work closely together.

Instead, a council report has revealed it could collapse social care services.

They were debating a backbench report which concluded the STP aims to move people away from expensive hospital care into community treatment could collapse social services.

Members of all parties hit out at the lack of transparency around the STP.

Coun Andrew Hardie (Con Sutton Vesey), a doctor, said that, along with social services and the public, frontline GPs had been ignored.

"The lack of involvement is worrying," he said.

Coun Rob Pockock (Lab Sutton Vesey) said people would not support the changes.

He said: "It shows there is simply not enough money in the system. The STP will be viewed by many as a cover for cuts."

And Coun Sue Anderson (Lib Dem, Sheldon) said: "It has been a huge disappointment. We are angry because our expectations were huge."

But Coun Matt Bennett (Con Edgabaston) criticised the council's spending of almost £700,000 on consultants to help draw up the STP.

"It's not transformational, it's not system wide, social care has been missed out," he said.

"I don't understand how it happened when we had these well-paid consultants working on it."