Public Health Developments
The response to the consultation to the Public Health White Paper has been published today: Healthy Lives, Healthy People, Update and Way Forward. It details five main changes are that are coming in around public health: 1. Local authorities will lead on public health, to shape services for local needs (health and wellbeing boards will [...]
Future Forum- Steve Field (Chair) reports back
The NHS Future Forum, a board of independent experts, was brought together to hold a “listening exercise” in response to public and professional resistance to proposals in the Health and Social Care Bill. The Forum listened to around 7000 people and received approximately 25k emails. They produced recommendations for the Bill and the Government has [...]
Fairer Care Funding- Recommendations from the Dilnot Report
This month the Dilnot Commission Report on Funding of Care and Support was published, looking to improve the fairness of the funding of adult social care in response to the needs of our aging population. It has looked at the: the cost of care and support, as a partnership between individuals and the state how [...]