Sarah Everard report author tackles creation of National Care Service

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : This new commission must move quickly and build on previous policy proposals.'The Mail yesterday revealed draft plans to improve adult social care will include the training of care workers to carry out routine health interventionsLast night charities warned that Britain's most vulnerable people may not be able to wait three years for social care to improveAnnouncing the new commission yesterday, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said it would build a 'national consensus' around a new National Care Service able to meet the needs of older and disabled people.
50% : But last night charities warned that Britain's most vulnerable people may not be able to wait three years for social care to improve.
43% : Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary, Edward Argar MP said: 'After Rachel Reeves abandoned their election promise to deliver our cap on social care costs, Labour have piled pressure on social care providers with their employer NICs jobs tax on social care workers, making their job even harder.'After 14 years in opposition it is deeply disappointing that Labour don't have a plan for social care.'The Mail yesterday revealed draft plans to improve adult social care will include the training of care workers to carry out routine health interventions such as blood pressure checks as part of wider reforms to treat people at home if possible, rather than at their GP practice or hospital.
41% : Today's older people do not have time on their side The more long drawn out the commission is, the greater the risk will be.'Even if all goes well, the reality is that it will be the early 2030s before older people and their families get substantial benefit from a transformed approach to social care - fully thirty years after Japan and Germany modernised their social care systems.

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