Ministers should set out a costed 10-year plan for social care to sit alongside its with its 10-year plan for the NHS, according to parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
In a new report, the committee said that central government still lacks an effective overall strategy or plan to achieve its long-held aim to integrate the two sectors.
PAC chair Meg Hiller said: “The time for warm words and wishful thinking is over. If [the] government is serious about delivering the benefits of integrated health and social care, it must act to make it happen.
“Without this action, the array of outputs over the past two decades – consultations, reviews, government papers – will never be matched by improved outcomes for service users.”
