The Care Development Group
The Care Development Group was set up with the aim of
ensuring that older people in Scotland have access to high
quality and responsive long-term care, in the appropriate
setting, and on a fair and equitable basis.
The members were:
Professor David Bell
Dr Roger Gibbins
Professor Alan Gilloran
Dr Sandra M Grant OBE
Jim Jackson
Alexis Jay
David Kelly
Professor Mary Marshall
Dr Kenneth O'Neill
Professor Alison Petch
Sue Plummer
The remit was as follows:
- To examine existing service
provision and to identify gaps, deficiencies and
duplication which may require to be addressed
- To bring forward proposals for
the implementation of free personal care for all, along
with an analysis of the costs and implications of so
doing
- To provide a clear definition of
what is meant by free personal care
- To examine the current deployment
of resources from all funding streams for the care of
older people and make any recommendations for change
that are thought to be necessary
- To work with the Chief Nursing
Officer's Group to develop a person-centred holistic
needs assessment process
- To consider the
interrelationships with UK matters, notably the tax and
social security benefits system and cross border
movement
- To bring forward recommendations,
together with costs and possible opportunity costs, of
providing sustainable changes which will meet current
and projected need and likely demand
- To report to the Minister for
Health and Community Care by August 2001 with a view to
the first stage of implementation beginning in April
2002
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