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Is a social care plan on the horizon?
Welcome to the December edition of The Care Home Environment. In this issue, HC-One executive chairman Sir David Behan OBE gives an account of how the UK’s biggest care provider has coped during the pandemic and offers his thoughts for how the sector can be reformed to produce lasting change. Sir David is one of the most experienced industry figures in the country and
his strongly held view that social care staff should be registered like other healthcare professionals to raise their status is to be respected. The calls for improved status, pay and conditions for social care staff to make
the sector more attractive to potential entrants are growing louder by the day and it seems they are being heard. In his recent address to the Care England virtual annual conference, health
and social care select committee chairman Jeremy Hunt was convinced the government will publish a ten year plan for the sector (see page 9).
Hunt’s calls for a social care plan and person-centred system were later echoed by Care Minister Helen Whately in her address to the Virtual Care Festival
As with Behan, Hunt believes social care should have parity of esteem with
the NHS, and the former Health Secretary thinks a ten year plan is necessary for workforce planning purposes. Rather than a big, top-down reorganisation of social care, Hunt wants to see
a “patient-centred revolution” where every social care user has a single care plan funded with a single budget shared with the health system by means of a single, electronic health record. Hunt’s calls for a social care plan and person-centred system were later
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echoed by Care Minister Helen Whately in her address to the Virtual Care Festival late last month. Whately said the government has learned lessons from the pandemic about
“how to create a flexible, resilient and person-centred care sector for future generations" and its current focus on Covid-19 “doesn’t diminish the need for a long-term plan for social care”. One can only hope these words are ultimately put into action. Enjoy the magazine.
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