Age UK statement in response to CGC report 'State of Care - CQC warns of growing ‘care injustice’, with access to good care increasingly dependent on how well local systems work together

Caroline Abrahams, Charity Director at Age UK said: 

“This CQC report confirms that as the pressures on our social care system become ever more intense, it’s increasingly ‘pot luck’ as to whether you get a good service or not or, indeed, any service at all. Nowadays we even hear of variations within areas as well as between them, both as regards access to care & also how well that care is joined up with other essential provision like district nursing & physiotherapy.” 

“A good care service can make all the difference in the world for an older person in declining health and it’s wrong that they should have to play Russian Roulette with something so vital. Older people need to be confident they will get good care that meets their needs whether they live North or South, in the countryside or a major city.”