Care for elderly 'let down by fragmented system'

Name: Care for elderly 'let down by fragmented system'
Uploaded: 2012-02-08T09:36:55.000Z
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Description: Older people are being let down by a social care system in which they are "passed like a parcel" between services, a committee of MPs has said.

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Older people are being let down by a social care system in which they are "passed like a parcel" between services, a committee of MPs has said.

The Commons health select committee wants local areas in England to deliver "joined-up" care, health and housing.

The committee's report said that the Health and Social Care Bill - currently making its way through Parliament - would not simplify a fragmented system.

Dominic Hughes reports.

8 February 2012