Social Care Programmes
Four nationally coordinated programmes delivered regionally
The national programmes take a whole systems approach to supporting policy implementation, encouraging the integration of health and social care wherever this produces better outcomes.
Social care programmes include work on
Core priorities for the four programme areas include:
- Putting people first - including extending the personalisation agenda, prevention and early intervention and improving efficiency;
- Dementia - developing and implementing the first ever National Dementia Strategy;
- Dignity - ensuring dignity is at the heart of all care and support, particularly for older people;
- Supporting the implementation of Valuing People Now;
- Carers - Supporting the implementation of the revised Prime Minister's Strategy for Carers and the work of the Standing Commission on Carers; and
- No Secrets - developing and implementing the policy update.