Turning the page on social care – Future Health unveils new three point plan to get care reform moving

Our Founder and Programme Director Richard Sloggett joined the Alzheimer’s Society Inside Track series to discuss the next stages for social care reform. Richard presented some of the long standing barriers to progress but also set out a three point plan for turning the page on social care. Drawing on his own experience of working on the social care green paper, Richard set out the three stage plan:

Levelling up social care – by bringing the process of accessing social care into line with the NHS with free personal care

Funding social care – funding the reforms through an increase in general taxation

Long term service transformation – by building a long term plan with the sector to ensure the enablers of higher quality care, particular a strengthened workforce and access to new technologies are unlocked

Richard Sloggett said: “It was a pleasure to be asked to present to the Alzheimer’s Society on how to turn the page on social care. The pandemic has highlighted the cost to life of not tackling this issue. If the Government is to truly deliver on levelling-up, then it needs to level-up social care. This will require a tough choice on who pays for care. This three point plan sets out a 1948 moment for social care, where like the NHS together we build a better, fairer system.”

The three point plan would ensure no-one would have to sell their home to pay for care and tackle the injustice of a dementia and cancer diagnosis.