Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has agreed to ‘simple asks’ on dementia, social care and motor neurone disease (MND) from Baroness Louise Casey.
The requests comprising: a new national safeguarding board for social care on a statutory legal footing; immediate backing to the scale up of dementia trials; a new full time Dementia Czar; faster progress on the modern service framework for frailty and dementia; and a new fast track passport for people with MND were made by Baroness Casey at the Nuffield Trust Summit today.
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: ‘We are hugely grateful to Baroness Casey for her tireless leadership and determination to transform social care in this country.
‘As a result, the Government is taking decisive action by establishing a new national safeguarding board to better protect vulnerable adults, fast-tracking access to care for people with motor neurone disease and accelerating work to transform dementia care and research, including by creating a dementia leadership role to drive forward action.
‘This is about moving faster, cutting through delay and building a social care system that works for everyone.’
Read the full response from the secretary of state here: Letter from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to Baroness Casey – GOV.UK.
Lee Peart is editor of Hemming Group’s Healthcare Management magazine.
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