Build Back Better: Our Plan for Health and Social Care
The government’s new plan for healthcare, adult social care, and our new funding plan.
Documents
Details
The ‘Build Back Better’ paper sets out the government’s new plan for health and social care.
It provides an overview of how this plan will tackle the electives backlog in the NHS and put the NHS on a sustainable footing. It sets out details of the plan for adult social care in England, including a cap on social care costs and how financial assistance will work for those without substantial assets. It covers wider support that the government will provide for the social care system, and how the government will improve the integration of health and social care. It explains the government’s plan to introduce a new Health and Social Care Levy.
This paper was laid in Parliament on 7 September 2021.
Last updated 8 March 2022 + show all updates
-
In 'Adult social care charging reform: further details', added section 'Indexation of reform parameters' to reflect that the level of the cap, the upper and lower capital limits, and the level of daily living costs will be reviewed and updated annually.
-
Updated the case studies in 'Adult social care charging reform: further details' to reflect likely inflationary changes in the rate of the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) or Personal Expenses Allowance (PEA) after reform is implemented from October 2023. The MIG or PEA figures remain the same in the current system. In addition, the case studies were simplified to remove Attendance Allowance, and now reflect daily living costs at the forecast level they will be in October 2023.
-
Added document 'Adult social care charging reform: impact assessment'.
-
Updated 'Adult social care charging reform: further analysis' to include reference to an interactive chart showing users with different care journey lengths, and to correct a figure that lowering daily living costs would cost around £600 million more.
-
Added attachment 'Adult social care charging reform: analysis
-
Added attachments 'Adult social care charging reform: further details' and 'Adult social care charging reform: the public sector equalities duty impact assessment'.
-
Welsh translation added
-
First published.