Seamless Care: Whose Job is it Anyway?

Party conference fringe event 3 October

National Voices, The Royal College of GPs, and the Alzheimer’s Society have run events at the autumn party conferences, on Seamless Care – Whose Job is it Anyway? The aim was to clarify who is accountable for bringing about the integration of care services.

The fringes provoked excellent debate. See an overview of all three fringes and coverage in the Health Service Journal, leading on Baroness Jolly's call to give Healthwatch more teeth.

Event Outline

• Barbara Pointon, a former carer whose husband Malcolm lived with Alzheimer’s for many years,shares Malcolm’s ‘web of care’ and the challenges they faced in navigating it
• Dr Clare Gerada, Royal College of GPs Chair, outlines the GP role in helping deliver more seamless care  
  
• They are joined on a panel by a party spokesperson and a local government spokesperson - see below - who each outline their role in joining up care
• The audience is invited to challenge the panelists and suggest actions
• National Voices’ chief executive, Jeremy Taylor chairs