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Securing good care for more people
— options for reform | | Author(s) | Richard Humphries, Julien Forder, José-Luis Fernández |
| Corporate Author | King's Fund |
| Publisher | King's Fund, London, 2010 |
| Pages | 63 pp |
| Source | Available at: http://www.cpa.org.uk/cpa_documents/securing_good_... |
| Keywords | Services ; Needs [elderly] ; Finance [care] ; Social policy ; Reports. |
| Annotation | Much has changed since the King's Fund published 'Securing good care for older people: taking a long-term view' (the Wanless Social Care Review) in 2006. This report refreshes and updates the 2006 review, using a dynamic micro-simulation model to provide new estimates of projected costs and benefits. It reflects new policy developments and the implications of political and financial uncertainty. It assesses the funding options set out in the Green Paper, 'Shaping the future of care together', and how these compare to the funding options modelled in this report. It also recognises the importance of, and recommends integrating support for care costs from, Attendance Allowance (AA) into the care system, to improve targeting of resources. It concludes that fundamental reform to achieve a more sustainable funding system is essential and possible, through these four steps: adopting a staged approach to funding reform; a fundamental spending review to achieve a new settlement for older people; ensuring that the reform of funding is accompanied by reform of delivery; and driving comprehensive reform by establishing a strategic, long-term framework for change, which will require an all-party road map for reform. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100320001 E |
| Classmark | I: IK: QC: TM2: 6K |
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