Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 17
Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce
Published 22 Oct 2020
Paragraph 101
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Lords Economic Affairs Committee’s report makes a persuasive case for the introduction of free personal care. This would cost around £5bn per year, which is only a small fraction of what is currently spent on NHS care. It would also simplify the current confusing arrangements for people who need care, and would put social care on a more equal footing with the NHS by ensuring that all basic care needs are met free at the point of need. Free personal care was also recommended by a joint report of the Health and Social Care Committee and Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee in 2018.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce (HC 206), paragraph 101, 22 October 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 17 February 2021 (deadline 22 December 2020).