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| Briefing: The health and care of older people in England 2015 | | Author(s) | Jill Mortimer, Marcus Green |
| Corporate Author | Age UK |
| Publisher | Age UK, London, February 2016 |
| Pages | 62 pp |
| Source | Download: http://www.ageuk.org.uk/Documents/EN-GB/For-profes... |
| Keywords | Health services ; Services ; Qualitative Studies ; Quantitative studies ; Statistics [data] ; England. |
| Annotation | This report updates that first published in October 2015; it takes account of and comments on measures introduced in the Autumn Statement and Comprehensive Spending Review 2015 (HM Treasury). During the summer of 2015, Age UK commissioned Britain Thinks to carry out focus groups with older people about what they wanted from the NHS and social care. This report states that while most greatly value the NHS and their health care professionals, there are concerns about having access to the right care at the right time in the right place. Most of the report is based on information in more than forty graphs and charts from a range of authoritative sources, to analyse the extent to which needs are being met by health and care services. It finds that older age groups are more likely to have health conditions, but which are preventable and mostly manageable. On social care funding and services, there has been a sharp decline in funding since 2010: resources are increasingly focused on those with the greatest needs, leading to a rise in unmet need, and pressure on unpaid carers. On the NHS, funding increases have not kept pace with rising demands and costs. The report points to a system under stress, with more hospital admissions that might have been avoidable with appropriate care, and delayed discharges thereafter. If we are to be confident about future needs being met, the Government must make changes to funding. The Comprehensive Spending Review 2015 included measures centred on social care that will start to take effect from 2016/17. For example, local authorities with social care responsibilities will be able to raise funds through a social care precept, raising council tax by up to a further 2% above the existing permitted threshold. The report concludes that while measures introduced by the Comprehensive Spending Review 2015 are to be welcomed, they appear to fall short of meeting future challenges. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160401001 E |
| Classmark | L: I: 3DP: 3DQ: 6C: 82 |
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