Care Provider Alliance (CPA) responds the launch of the NHS 10 Year Health Plan.
For many people, health and social care provision feels disjointed, inaccessible, and fragmented, with people having to take lengthy trips to hospitals for even basic check-ups and treatments. The Care Provider Alliance welcomes the publication of the 10 Year Health Plan, which will bring health closer to home.
We welcome the strong focus in the Plan on the creation of neighbourhood health teams, which will bring NHS staff, social care workers, pharmacists, and volunteers together to provide people with convenient access to a full range of healthcare services right on their doorsteps. This must be the way forward.
Social care has a pivotal role to play in providing high quality, person-centred and flexible care and support to people, and the CPA and our members look forward to working with the Government to implement this vision. However, social care is severely under resourced and faces massive challenges just to keep existing services functioning.
We await further detail about how high quality and sustainable care and support services in Neighbourhoods will be adequately resourced. We are also keen to find out more about how, with the planned demise of Healthwatch, the voice of the person being supported and their families will remain at the forefront of decisions about how care is delivered locally.
Vic Rayner, Chair of the CPA said:
‘The 10 Year Health Plan presents an exciting and much needed vision for how care will be brought closer to people’s home. Social care and support providers across the country will be keen to embrace this vision and contribute in any way they can, and we look forward to working with Government to bring this vision to life.’
Notes to Editors
About the Care Provider Alliance (CPA)
The Care Provider Alliance is a coalition of 10 associations. We advocate for the sector and ensure a coordinated response to the major issues that affect it.
We represent private, voluntary and community sector care providers in England. Some members also represent services in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland. The Care Provider Alliance speaks for the whole of the adult social care sector, including care homes; home care services; housing with care; integrated retirement communities; shared lives schemes; services for people with learning disabilities and autism; mental health and community-based support. Members support children, adults of working age and older people. Local authorities, health bodies or private individuals purchase care from providers.
We reach over 95% of all care and support provider organisations, in a sector with 1.6 million employees helping people to live good-quality, independent lives. The scale of our sector’s work is vast, affecting the lives of over 10 million adults at any given time, including people using formal and informal care, care workers, and unpaid carers.
The Care Provider Alliance is an informal body. Members take it in turns to lead the CPA and the Chair changes each year.
For more information on the Care Provider Alliance visit:
https://careprovideralliance.org.uk/about-us
Contact: press@careprovideralliance.org.uk
