Dr Eleanor Roy
Dr Eleanor Roy is health and social care policy manager at CIPFA
Financial management is key to ICS’ success
With Integrated Care Systems due to become statutory bodies on 1 July, Dr Eleanor Roy says good public financial management will be crucial to ensure outcomes and value for money are achieved.
The recipe for integration lacks some key ingredients
Dr Eleanor Roy of CIPFA sets out what is required if the vision of the integration White Paper is to be achieved. At the moment it provides ‘more questions than answers’.
Road to reform – a blurred vision
Achieving the Government’s vision for the future of adult social care will take much more investment than is set out on the face of the white paper, says health and social care policy manager at CIPFA Dr Eleanor Roy.
A first step on the road to reform?
The plan for health and social care plan does nothing to address the challenges faced by the sector, including increasing demand, unmet need and ever-tightening budgets, says Dr Eleanor Roy
Spending review: Greater certainty is needed on social care reform
The Spending Review was a missed chance to provide adequate funding and a firm basis for the reforms the Government has committed to bring forward, says Dr Eleanor Roy.
Time to wake up to social care reform
As it is revealed that just 4% of social care directors are confident they can deliver their statutory duties with the budgets available, Dr Eleanor Roy says now is the time to take action on social care reform