Social Care
Update!!!
Last year, I carried out a
consultation with constituents on the subject of social
care. This week, the
Government published the Green Paper on a National Care
Service.
The discussions
and feedback last year helped me to put together a response that
has fed in to this latest set of plans. I can see a lot of the
ideas and themes we discussed in the Green Paper.
In
particular
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Prevention
services - the right support to stay independent and well for
as long as possible and to delay care needs getting
worse.
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National
assessment - care needs will be
assessed in the same way across England.
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Joined up
services - all the services will work together
smoothly.
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Information and
advice – the care system will be easy to understand and
navigate.
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Personalised care and
support - services will be based on personal circumstances and
need.
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Fair
funding - money will be spent wisely and everyone will get
some help meeting the cost of high care needs.
The document also discusses the
thorny issue of how we will pay for care in the future.
There is a more detailed briefing
below or if you want to see the whole document, you can access it
on the Department of Health website - click here More Help for
Carers
Thank you to those who took part in
the consultation.
If you have further comments on these
plans, please let me know and I will make sure that they’re passed
to Health Secretary, Andy Burnham
MP.
You can contact
Jacqui about this article at smithjj@parliament.uk
To read more in
depth notes on the social Care Greenpaper, please click
here 
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