The government has published its new plan for healthcare, adult
social care and a new funding plan.
Build Back Better: Our
Plan for Health and Social Care
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Build Back Better: Our
Plan for Health and Social Care (web accessible
version)
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This paper sets out the government’s new plan for health and
social care.
It provides an overview of how this plan will tackle the
electives backlog in the NHS and put the NHS on a sustainable
footing. It sets out details of the plan for adult social care in
England, including a cap on social care costs and how financial
assistance will work for those without substantial assets. It
covers wider support that the government will provide for the
social care system, and how the government will improve the
integration of health and social care. It explains the
government’s plan to introduce a new Health and Social Care Levy.
This paper was laid in Parliament on 7 September 2021.
Impact of “Building Back Better: Our Plan for Health and
Social Care” on households
Illustrative analysis of the impact of the combined tax and
spending announcements set out in “Building Back Better: Our Plan
for Health and Social Care” on household incomes.
Illustrative analysis of
the impact of “Building Back Better: Our Plan for Health and
Social Care” on households
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This document shows the immediate, short-run change in income as
a result of increases in employee National Insurance
Contributions (NICs) and dividends, alongside an estimate of
where benefits from new health and social care spending may fall.
It concludes that, subject to the assumptions used in this
modelling, in 2022-23:
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Lower-income households will be large net beneficiaries from
this package, with the poorest households gaining most (as a
proportion of income).
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The 20% highest-income households will contribute more than
40 times that of the 20% lowest-income households.
