Press Release

 

2 January 2008

 

NATIONAL CARE ASSOCIATION SIGNATORY TO THE ‘PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST’ SOCIAL CARE CONCORDAT

NCA was one of the organisations invited by the Department of Health to be a signatory to the new “Putting People First” Social Care Concordat launched by the Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson on 10 December 2007.

Nadra Ahmed OBE who signed the Concordat on behalf of NCA said: “On behalf of our members we welcomed the opportunity to be a signatory to the Concordat. The launch of the Concordat is a major opportunity to engage all stakeholders especially service users in both the planning of and the purchasing of services tailor made to meet their needs.

NCA believes that the biggest challenge emerging from the Concordat will be to ensure that all older people have equal access to the proposed new arrangements.”

Mrs. Ahmed went on to say: “NCA will be watching very closely to be certain that the frailest and most vulnerable of service users are treated in exactly the same way as all other older people.”

 

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