Lee Peart 21 October 2024

Streeting promises 10-Year Plan for social care

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Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has promised a 10-Year Plan for social care that will run alongside the 10-Year Plan for the NHS.

Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg yesterday, Streeting said the NHS could not be solved without social care and welcomed opposition calls to work on a cross-party agreement.

Streeting said: ‘We have built a broad consensus on the NHS. That’s what I want to do on social care.’

The health and social care secretary said he was thinking about the ‘best mechanism to involve the other parties’.

Streeting said he saw himself as both the health and social care secretary.

The health and social care secretary’s comments came as care minister Stephen Kinnock promised the Government’s plans for reform social care would be published in the next 12 months.

In response, Liberal Democrat health and social care spokesperson Helen Morgan said the Government was ‘kicking the can on social care down the road yet again’.

Morgan added: ‘We need to begin cross-party talks immediately to get social care on a long-term sustainable footing. You cannot fix the crisis in the NHS without fixing social care.’

This article first appeared on Healthcare Management.

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