Social Care Funding

Jo Churchill Excerpts
Monday 12th December 2016

(7 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Mowat Portrait David Mowat
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The hon. Lady made two points, both of which I agree with. The first was that in Scotland there has been a 9% reduction in delayed transfers of care. It is also true that in England many parts of our system, particularly those that have integrated most quickly, have achieved reductions of that size and more. She is right that the STPs are part of the process of re-engineering the system. Adult social care and the integration of adult social care are a big part of that and we need to ensure that we deliver.

Jo Churchill Portrait Jo Churchill (Bury St Edmunds) (Con)
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Does the Minister agree that better integration could be driven by better patient data, which could help to show us where quality practices exist and how to spread best practice?

David Mowat Portrait David Mowat
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I do agree. I had a discussion with the Care Quality Commission on the dataset that is reported, and I hope that over the next months and years we can improve how we do that.