Sajid Javid working on radical plan to merge social care with health in England

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : For some it means having social care services delivered by the NHS.
60% : The idea of local authorities and the NHS taking joint responsibility for social care, perhaps working from a single combined budget for the first time, would amount to one of the most far-reaching reforms since the NHS was founded in 1948.
60% : The Observer has been told that prime minister Boris Johnson was keen to announce plans to integrate health and social care services last month when he revealed that National Insurance contributions would rise by 1.25 percentage points from next April, to raise £12bn a year for the NHS and social care.
58% : Radical plans for a new national care service under which health and social care would be delivered by the same organisation are being actively considered by the government for inclusion in a white paper next month, according to senior Conservatives and Whitehall sources.
58% : At present, local authorities have responsibility for running social care services in their own areas.
54% : Unified health and social care budgets are the only way to deliver both a more efficient health and social care system as well as properly joining up for the benefit of patients what is currently a badly fragmented system."
54% : This government that got Brexit done, that is getting the vaccine rollout done is going to get social care done."
52% : Former Tory Cabinet Minister Damian Green, who has written extensively about social care added: "Running social care jointly between local authorities and the NHS would be an interesting idea but would of course still leave big questions about how you attract a bigger and better paid workforce, how you ensure appropriate housing so that people do not go prematurely into residential care."
49% : Sally Warren, director of policy at the King's Fund, said: "In reality, people mean different things when they talk about bringing social care into the NHS.
45% : Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: "Social care is in desperate need of wholesale reform but the cap Boris Johnson announced fails to provide the fix he promised.
44% : Under the most radical option of all, local authorities would be stripped of any involvement for social care, which would come entirely under the NHS.

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