This report draws on published literature about joining up and co-ordinating care homes and health services. It also draws on interviews with a range of providers, local authorities and CCGs. It aims to help care homes and NHS providers (including GPs), local authorities and CCGs who are thinking through how ...
This working paper is produced as part of the Social Care Funding Options project, a joint project between the Health Foundation and The King’s Fund. and This paper considers the following approaches to funding social care for older people in England: improving the current system; the Conservative Party’s proposals at the time of the 2017 general election (a revised means test and a cap on care costs); a single budget for health and social care; free ...
This consultation response includes the following overarching observations. First, it is vital that reform addresses the significant overall underfunding of adult social care and the high levels of unmet need. Second, the challenge is not simply about responding to additional numbers of older people. It is also about addressing the ...
Securing good care for more people: options for reform proposes new, fairer funding arrangements for adult social care, a review of the current settlement for older people and a long-term staged approach to reform based on political consensus. While demonstrating that the cost of the social care system is set ...