MPs to hold first evidence session of social care inquiry
Fourteen years on from the publication of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support’s ‘Fairer care funding’ report, MPs will speak to the Commission’s chair, Sir Andrew Dilnot, in the first evidence session of the Health and Social Care Committee’s inquiry into the cost of inaction on social care.
Meeting details
With Dilnot-style reforms being introduced in legislation but implementation repeatedly delayed, the Committee will ask what impact the report’s author thinks inaction has had.
The Committee will consider how the failure to reform adult social care in this Parliament may impact upon the Government's ability to deliver on its ambition to move more care from the hospital to the community.
MPs will examine what costs could be avoided if social care was reformed and will probe the extent to which failure to reform is driving inequalities in access to, and the quality of, social care.
The Committee will also ask how the NHS might need to reform to better interact with social care and will consider the practical impact to hospitals when patients cannot be discharged due to challenges accessing social care.