UK/Health and Care Act 2022
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The Health and Care Act 2022 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was created to dismantle many of the structures established by the UK/2012 Health and Social Care Act. Many of the proposals were drafted under the leadership of Simon Stevens and were intended to reinforce the ambitions of the NHS Long Term Plan.
Implementation delayed
It was introduced into the House of Commons in July 2021 and was the first substantial health legislation in the premiership of Boris Johnson. It was proposed to take effect in April 2022, but in December 2021 it was reported that implementation would be delayed until July 2022.
The legislation provided for a lifetime £86,000 cap on the amount anyone in England would have to spend on their social care. It was originally planned that the cap would be introduced in October 2023, but in the 2022 autumn statement the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, announced it would be delayed until October 2025.
Cap cancelled
In July 2024 the new Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, announced her decision to cancel the introduction of the cap on social care costs entirely.[1]
Integrated Care Systems
On 13 September 2022, Real Media wrote:
Bob Gill is a General Practitioner and NHS campaigner who directed the film "The Great NHS Heist" exposing how, over decades, our National Health Service has been packaged up and readied for privatisation by successive governments.
Real Media first interviewed Dr Gill five years ago, and much has happened since then to confirm his suspicions and validate his warnings.
Just two months ago, Boris Johnson’s government passed the new Health and Care Act 2022 which set up Integrated Care Systems, mirroring the American Kaiser Permanente ‘managed-care’ model. Among its many shortcomings, it introduces greater power to Ministers to make future changes without parliamentary scrutiny, more barriers to face-to-face GP appointments, more private corporation influence over boards, and fewer legal requirements on standards of care.
In our new interview, Dr Gill explains how the new Public Private Partnerships, with fixed budgets, will inevitably lead to staff exploitation and denial of care as well as the shrinking of unprofitable areas of the NHS like Accident & Emergency or mental health provision.
Dr Gill exposes how the media have failed to explain the real purpose of changes in NHS structures, and how they are scapegoating GPs, immigrants, the elderly and so on, rather than analysing the root cause of the crisis in the NHS, which is the government’s policy agenda.[2]
References
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