The UK has come to terms with its ageing population. People spend less time in hospital – partly because they are healthier and partly because much routine care takes place in homes and on high street locations.

And local authority heads of finance look back both in horror (and amusement) at the days when health and social care services were run from different budgets and conferences took place, almost daily, questioning how integrated services could be achieved. 

This is what we would like to see happen: by 2030, when a quarter of the population will be aged 65 or older.