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Debate between Victoria Atkins and Amanda Solloway(8 years, 10 months ago)
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Victoria Atkins (Louth and Horncastle) (Con)
7. What progress the Government has made on integrating and improving care provided outside of hospitals.
Amanda Solloway (Derby North) (Con)
16. What progress the Government has made on integrating and improving care provided outside of hospitals.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Life Sciences (George Freeman)
I join you, Mr Speaker, in offering the Government’s congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Louth and Horncastle (Victoria Atkins) on her extraordinary success.
Tackling the long neglected integration of health and social care is a major priority for this Government. It is crucial to avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions, providing better care outcomes for the elderly and easing the pressure on our health economy from an ageing population. That is why we have set up the better care fund, providing funding of £3.9 billion—£5.3 billion if we include local funding; why my right hon. Friend the Chancellor has announced the social care precept, which will raise £2 billion; and why we have fully funded the NHS five year forward view integrated care pioneers and new models of care in 95 sites. That is more than Labour promised or ever did in its term of office.