This project was completed in March 2006.
In brief
- In 2002, Sir Derek Wanless, the former chief executive of NatWest Group, published Securing Our Future Health for the Treasury. One of the recommendations of this report into future health care trends and spending was that a similar review of social care was needed.
- In 2005, The King’s Fund commissioned Sir Derek to conduct such a review. The outcome was a report, Securing Good Care for Older People, which looked at the challenges facing social care over the next 20 years, the resources that will be needed to meet them, and the options for finding those resources.
- Securing Good Care for Older People concluded by advocating a 'partnership' model of funding as the best, fairest and most cost-effective way of delivering a minimum level of care to people that they could top-up from their own resources.
