Written evidence to be reported to the House
Health and Social Care Bill
11:45 am
Angela Browning (Deputy Chairman, The Conservative Party; Tiverton and Honiton, Conservative)
Could I now come to the next question I was to ask, which is about elderly people? Anna Walker touched on it, and I also ask Lord Patel and Chris Heginbotham to keep it at the back of their minds, because one of the advantages of the Care Quality Commission is that there are no glass walls. As we know, when we are dealing with people they do not necessarily have one condition, so there is this mix of learning disability and mental health.
Coming now to care and inspection of behalf of the elderly. Do you believe this is going to improve the quality of care for elderly people, given the demographics we face with an increasingly elderly population? I wonder whether you think having these different disciplines working more closely together is going to help, or are you concerned that things will become so generic that specific groups such as the elderly will not see the improvement in quality?