Barker report confronts injustices of long-term care
Commission on the future of health and social care has unveiled a radical but deliverable plan
Kate Barker: Health and social care must be radically reshaped around need
The commission on the future of health and social care in England, established by the Kings Fund under economist Kate Barker, has unveiled a radical but deliverable plan for extending free at the point of need care into social services.
The commissions final report shuns the usual obsession with how to fund hospitals, instead focusing on the needs of patients with long-term conditions. It was heavily influenced by the emotionally charged evidence from its panel of service users and carers. Their distress, despair, sense of injustice and incomprehension at the unfairness of the current system drove the commission to look for a new approach, built around patient needs rather than the current arbitrary and irrational distinctions between health and social care. Guardian
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