Write to letters@thetimes.co.ukSir, Wes Streeting oversees the Department of Health and Social Care, the name of which recognises that the two are interrelated. In calling for a new and lengthy commission on social care, when the issues are well documented, the government has missed a golden opportunity to consider social care as part of its proposed ten-year strategic plan for health due this spring (“Reform of social care is pushed back again”, Jan 3). A new strategic plan for health will be incomplete if it has not thought through the equally urgent changes needed to the social care system. David FinlayLondon NW1Sir, It is evident the government has no intention of overhauling social care in this parliament and will waste

Source: The Times January 04, 2025 04:41 UTC