The former Health minister who ran a Government review into social care in the UK says Labour have been “misguided” to scrap plans to reform the sector. Lord Norman Warner, a crossbench peer who served as a Minister in the Department for Health under Tony Blair and sat on the 2011 Dilnot Review, said the system would remain “unfair and unfixed” as long as the problem was not combatted. Lord Warner also warned that the problems in hospitals would be impossible to fix unless social care was addressed.
According to Age UK , approximately 2.6 million people in England aged over 50 are unable to get care. Due to the lack of provision, thousands of patients remain in hospital despite medically well enough to be discharged.
Lord Warner told i : “As a member of the 3-person Dilnot Commission I think the new Government’s approach to adult social care is highly misguided. A Royal Commission and a vague aspiration for a National Care Service is simply kicking the can along the road. “As an ex-Health Minister I know that you cannot fix the NHS without fixing social care.
[Wes] Streeting will find his acute hospitals are still blocked by elderly patients who shouldn’t be there. “The Dilnot proposals wouldn’t fix this problem and were never designed to. What they would do is make the present system fairer by capping individual liability to pay.
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