2010 was a busy year for social care policy

• Integrate health and social care to create a seamless service…..

• Elected Local Health Boards ‘working in co-operation with local councils’

• Cut DH by half, scrap SHAs, government offices abolish unnecessary quangos

• Local income tax - pilot

•Single health & social care budget for people with LTCs

•Independent NHS Board

•Give Councils general power of competence

•Scrapping plans for unitary councils

•2 year freeze on Council tax

•DH becomes Department for Public Health

•Separate public health funding to local communities£?

• a new National Care Service working in partnership with the NHS

• No changes to the structure of Primary Care Trusts or Strategic Health Authorities during the next Parliament

What the parties pledged before the election -

£ ? - will increase spending in real terms every year

£ ? - will match Government’s current spending plans for NHS

£ ? – 95% of NHS budget increased in line with inflation to 2013

“The deficit reduction programme takes precedence over any of the other measures in this agreement, and the speed of implementation of

any measures that have a cost to the public finances will depend on decisions to be made in the

Comprehensive Spending Review.”

What did the coalition government say it would do about social care ?

Establish a commission on long term care to report within a year

Break down barriers between health and social care to incentivise preventive action

Extend roll out of personal budgets

Improve access to respite care, direct payments for carers

Reform access to work for people with disabilities