Adult Social Care Green paper delayed to autumn
Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:09
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Mr Jeremy
Hunt):...For our most vulnerable citizens with both health and care
needs, we also recognise that NHS and social care provision are two
sides of the same coin. It is not possible to have a plan for one
sector without having a plan for the other. Indeed, we have been
clear with the NHS that a key plank of its plan must be the full
integration of the two services. As part of the NHS plan, we will
review the current functioning and...Request free trial
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Mr
Jeremy Hunt):...For our most vulnerable citizens with both
health and care needs, we also recognise that NHS and social care
provision are two sides of the same coin. It is not possible to
have a plan for one sector without having a plan for the other.
Indeed, we have been clear with the NHS that a key plank of its
plan must be the full integration of the two services. As part of
the NHS plan, we will review the current functioning and structure
of the Better Care Fund to make sure that it supports that. While
the long-term funding profile of the social care system will not be
settled until the spending review, we will publish the social care
Green Paper ahead of that. However, because we want to integrate
plans for social care with the new NHS plan, it does not make sense
to publish it before the NHS plan has even been drafted, so we now
intend to publish the social care Green Paper in the autumn around
the same time as the NHS plan...
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