SOCIAL CARE

Digital Innovation: a lifeline for social care  

Successful digital innovation in social care is developing all over the country, but the Government needs to embed the sector’s insights into a broader, long-term strategy for reform, says Kathryn Smith.

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With the new Government still settling into place, opportunities for the social care and support sector are emergent. We must use the energy that comes with a new Government to drive much-needed reforms forward.  

Social care is a golden thread through many of the new Government's ambitions. Refocusing the system from sickness to prevention and hospital to community as well as analogue to digital is contingent upon a social care sector capable of meeting the needs of all our communities.  

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