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Debate between Andrew Selous and Laura Sandys(12 years, 4 months ago)
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Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire) (Con)
4. What steps he is taking to improve the quality of care provided in residential and nursing homes.
Laura Sandys (South Thanet) (Con)
9. What steps he is taking to improve social care services.
The Minister of State, Department of Health (Paul Burstow)
The White Paper introduces new measures to help us to deliver better quality services and to improve the care that people experience, including through greater transparency, with new provider quality profiles and new care audits. It also clarifies what quality in care and support means, by setting out principles, standards, roles and responsibilities for driving up the quality of care. The White Paper makes it clear that we will rule out crude commissioning by the minute, which turns care workers into clock-watchers, and that we will work with commissioners, care providers and people who use services and carers in order to bring to an end commissioning practices that undermine people’s dignity and choice.