The Future of Social Care

Care when we are incapable of caring for ourselves is a fact that many of us will have to deal with and is a worry to many.

Successive Governments, of all persuasions, have grappled with this topic yet none have produced a solution. (The Dilnot Commission being the latest example.)

Meanwhile the current system is not working. Many do not get the care they need and lack of care provision is regularly cited as a major reason for the NHS’s problems.

• What can be done to address this problem?
• Is social care a Government problem or the responsibility of the individual?
• Where does health care stop and social care start?
• Why has this problem seemed so intractable?
• What options are available to fund Social Care?
• Specifically, why have Dilnot’s recommendations been kicked into the long grass?
• Is there any confidence that the current Government will succeed where others have failed?
• What can be learned from other countries, is there a working model we could adopt?