Ministers to launch historic commission to reform ‘failing’ system amid warnings the NHS risks being overwhelmedHealth secretary Wes Streeting has defended the government’s proposed timeline for reforming social care.Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme he stressed there would be action taken in this parliament. He said “successive governments led by Labour, the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and the SNP have all failed on social care.”If anyone is going to help us to break the cycle of bad politics, knock heads together, and forge the national consensus I think we need on social care, it is Louise Casey.And that work will begin in April. It will report initially next year. And within three years I hope we will have built the consensus we need to build a national care service fit to meet the challenges for older and disabled people in the 21st century.Ministers are to launch a historic independent commission to reform adult social care, as they warned older people could be left without vital help and the NHS overwhelmed unless a “national consensus” was reached on fixing a “failing” system. The taskforce, to be led by the cross-bench peer Louise Casey, and health secretary Wes Streeting has been on the airwaves this morning to talk about the plansKemi Badenoch instructed her department to write to the Treasury about a potential tax break after an intervention from James Dyson, documents have revealedHealth minister Andrew Gwynne has told that Elon Musk “perhaps ought to focus on issues on the other side of the Atlantic” after the tech billionaire again attacks on British politiciansTwenty councillors at a local authority in Nottinghamshire have quit Labour, saying the party has “abandoned traditional Labour values” under Keir Starmer’s leadership Continue reading…
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