Alzheimer's Society's reaction to Queen's Speech

This draft bill, it is claimed, would set out how the government would modernise care and support law to ensure local authorities fit their services around the needs, outcomes and experience of people; build on the personal budgets agenda; simplify the laws around social care; and improve the way people get information about what they're entitled to.

Alzheimer's Society comment:

'The draft bill suggests real progress can be made. But we still have no definitive timeframe for when the millions of people being put at risk by the current crumbling system will get the fair deal they desperately need. Consultation is important but it can't become a delay tactic. Action is needed now to support the most vulnerable in society.

'Underfunding of social crisis must be at the heart of reform yet this still isn't being addressed. Millions of people - including people with dementia - are being stripped of their savings. We are also in danger of bankrupting the NHS as more people reach crisis point. There is no time to wait.'

Jeremy Hughes
Chief Executive
Alzheimer's Society

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