Independent Commission into Adult Social Care

(asked on 10th September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what role patients with lived experience of NHS Continuing Healthcare will take in Baroness Casey's review of adult social care.


Answered by
Alison McGovern Portrait
Alison McGovern
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 17th September 2026

Baroness Casey has made clear that one of the core purposes of the Big Conversation on Care that she is leading is to hear from people, families, and carers with direct, real-life experience of the current social care system, so she can reflect those experiences in her recommendations for reform.

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