During my previous visit to South Staffordshire, I learnt of the integrated health and social care pilot that was being run in Codsall ward.
As highlighted in a previous article, by 2020 South Staffordshire will have the highest proportion of over-80 yr olds in the country. Restructuring the local health and social care services should provide a more efficient and effective service for the elderly population and also help to achieve maximum benefit for scarce public resources.
Just before Christmas I attended a working lunch with Andrew Lansley, the Shadow Secretary of State for Health. Andrew explained that his team would be publishing a Green Paper in the New Year, focusing on the Conservatives public health policy and how we would improve local preventative strategies. It will be interesting to see how this work builds on projects such as the Codsall pilot and I’ll be examining the Green Paper with interest when it’s published.
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