LGA response to Care Quality Commission report on integration

Responding to the Care Quality Commission's report Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers, a Local Government Association spokesperson said: "There are many examples where local health systems are integrating to the benefit of older people in need of health care and support.  "However, to really ensure that individuals receive the care they need and deserve, we need social care to be properly funded by Government. "Despite the financial pressures faced by local authorities, councils and their partners want people's needs and wishes to remain central to their care. "Councils, care providers, charities and the NHS are all united around the need for central Government to fully fund adult social care as this is vital to ensure our loved ones enjoy the dignified and independent quality of life they deserve. As a starting point, the Government should bring forward £700 million of desperately-needed social care funding earmarked for the end of the decade to allow councils to protect vital social care services essential to easing the pressure on care providers and on the NHS."