By NHS focus left care workers exposed to COVID, MPs find.
Tens of thousands of adults could live more independently at home each year if councils are able to retain control of social care instead of giving increased control to the NHS or the government, according to a new report.
The report outlines new ways of working and improved practices for local authorities, care providers and the NHS in what Newton terms anNew ‘optimised local delivery model’ to help transform services for many of the 1.4m people who approach councils each year for local authority arranged-care in England.
This can be achieved through a mix of interrelated improvements, including better long-term commissioning of residential and home care; greater collaboration between councils, the NHS and care providers; investment in reablement services; maximising the use of the voluntary and community sector; and embracing digital transformation.
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“Inadequate” government planning and a lack of PPE left frontline workers “risking their own and their families’ lives during the early stages of the pandemic, an MPs’ report has found.
More needs to be done across the heath and social care sector.
The Public Accounts Committee report said the Department for Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) decision to prioritise hospitals at the beginning of the pandemic left social care workers exposed to the virus.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHSX and Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government were called to work with industry leaders to establish a commission which would audit the social care sector, with an aim to better support digital transformation and integration across the health and care sector.
