Key findings
Integrating health and social care
Integrating health and social care is more important for delivering savings in the NHS than restructuring and management changes say MPs.
Health and social care should be planned together. Commissioners of health and social care services should be held to account if this is not achieved.
MPs are concerned money intended to support the integration of health and social care is being spent on supporting existing social care services.
Setting targets
MPs are concerned that NHS organisations are seeking to achieve short-term savings to meet their current financial objectives, such as ‘salami-slicing’ current services, at the expense of planning longer term service changes which would save money in future years.
Social care funding
Social care services are under pressure from local authority cuts. The report questions the amount of money given to Local Authorities for social care, referencing that 82% of councils provide care only to those whose needs are assessed as significant or higher.
Transfer of money from the NHS to social care has been effective and there is scope to extend the transfer of money from the NHS to social care.
The government’s response to the Dilnot Commission on social care funding is needed to set out how the social care system can be sustainably funded. Support will be needed while social care system is changing.
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