Health and care in need of 'transformation' plan'

摘要

A call has been made for more funds and the creation of a 'national transformation strategy' to accelerate health and care integration.Such a move would accelerate the 'historically slow progress' being made, a report published by the Health and Social Care Committee claimed this week.The findings were backed by figures last week from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which found 1.5m emergency hospital admissions could have been avoided in 2016/17 if health and care services worked together more effectively.PAC chair, Meg Hillier, blamed the situation on the Government's 'failure to properly fund and coordinate preventive health care and social care'.Similarly, the Health and Social Care Committee found that financial pressures had caused national bodies to shift focus away from transformation to balancing the books.