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Professor Martin Green OBE Chief Executive ECCA. What is the future for Social Care ? North West Care Show - 17 th April 2013. English Community Care Association. Largest representative body in the care sector Over 6,200 care services 0.5 million service users
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Professor Martin Green OBEChief Executive ECCA What is the future for Social Care ? North West Care Show - 17th April 2013
English Community Care Association • Largest representative body in the care sector • Over 6,200 care services • 0.5 million service users • Working on behalf of small, medium and large providers • Charities/corporates/independents
The Need for Change • Fragmented services • Cuts to health and social care • Dependency based system • Cliff edge, means-tested funding • Variable services • Poor commissioning for budgets not need • Lack of consumer choice
A new vision for care and support • From crisis to wellbeing • From state to individual needs • From dependency to independence • From receiver to contributor • From disability to re-ablement • From separation to integration • From ignorant to informed consumer • From isolation to community action
Opportunities and Challenges • Developing the market: integration of housing, health and social care • Creative approaches: holding values and developing services • Mixed business models • Partnerships: charity/private/social enterprise • Diversification/responding to need • Development of sub-acute services • Hubs of expertise and involvement • Efficiencies and outcomes
The system must respond by: • Developing a long term funding system • Building a system on quality not cost • Integrating health and social care • Developing outcome measures • Offer direct payments for all services • Understand the true costs of care • Value and reward quality • Reduce bureaucracy • Develop and pay the workforce
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