IAN BIRRELL: We don't need a new review

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Read More NHS in grip of 'unacceptably awful' crisis as surge in flu admissions spark 'excess deaths' warningsLocal authorities are struggling to pay the bills, leaving hundreds of thousands of people with unmet needs and beds in hospitals blocked by patients who cannot be sent home due to a lack of community-based support.
56% : This government is committed to doing politics differently,' declared Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday as he launched an independent commission with a brief to 'transform social care'.
55% : There have been 25 white papers, green papers, select committee inquiries and state reviews of social care since Tony Blair took power in 1997.
52% : This government is committed to doing politics differently,' declared Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday as he launched an independent commission with a brief to 'transform social care'Labour had pledged in its general election manifesto to create a National Care Service to support our old, sick and disabled citizens (file image)
51% : When Labour proposed a 10 per cent levy on top of inheritance tax to fund social care in 2009, the Tories labelled it a 'death tax'.
50% : There are splits on fundamental questions such as the respective roles of the family and the state, as well as more technical issues such as what constitutes an acceptable level of personal assets when considering who should be entitled to state-funded care and who controls the purse strings.
50% : When the Conservatives suggested that people who needed social care at home, such as sufferers from Alzheimer's, should pay for it until their assets reached a floor of £100,000, Labour branded it a 'dementia tax'.
35% : Yet, as he admits, history shows 'general election campaigns are where plans for social care go to die'.

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