The government should produce a 10 year, fully costed plan for social care to run alongside the imminent NHS long term plan due out before the end of the year, say MPs on an influential committee.
Despite around 20 years of efforts to ensure closer integration of health and social care, the two areas were still too disparate and lacking in coordination of services, said MPs on the Public Accounts Committee.
In a report1 on the interface between health and adult social care, the committee said that the government still lacked an effective overall strategy to achieve effective integration of the two sectors.
It was broadly accepted that integration and joint working was the right way forward for the health and social care systems in order to …

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国会议员呼吁制定10年社会护理计划，以配合即将到来的NHS长期计划

有影响力的议员表示，政府应制定一项为期10年，成本完全的社会护理计划，并与即将在年底前出台的即将到来的NHS长期计划一起实施。
公共账目委员会议员说，尽管为确保卫生和社会保健的更紧密结合进行了约20年的努力，但这两个领域仍然相距太远，缺乏服务的协调。
委员会在关于健康与成人社会护理之间关系的报告1中表示，政府仍然缺乏有效的整体战略来实现两个部门的有效整合。
人们普遍认为，融合和联合工作是卫生和社会护理系统前进的正确道路，以便……