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By Calum Watson
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The appalling loss of life and challenges facing the care sector in Scotland during the Covid crisis shone a spotlight on services that for years have been buckling under enormous pressures. In September, Nicola Sturgeon announced an independent review into the future of adult social care. The National Health Service was born out of the tragedy of World War Two. Let us resolve that we will build out of this Covid crisis, the lasting and positive legacy of a high quality, National Care Service, the first minister told MSPs.
That review - led by former NHS Scotland boss Derek Feeley - has spoken to more than 1,000 users of social care and experts to develop a blueprint for the future. So what does it recommend and will it happen?
THE Scottish Government has been urged to establish a national care service on an equal footing with the NHS. The recommendation came in the long-awaited Independent Review of Adult Social Care led by Derek Feeley, a former Scottish Government director-general for health and social care and chief executive of NHS Scotland. He said: “There is a gap, sometimes a chasm, between the intent of that ground-breaking legislation and the lived experience of people who need support. “We have inherited a system that gets unwarranted local variation, crisis intervention, a focus on inputs, a reliance on the market, and an undervalued workforce.
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