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Watch the webinar on a potential Covid-19 second wave
Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive of Care England, and the Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell, former Secretary of State for Health, laid out their views on what have been some of the key lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic thus far.
Professor Green began the webinar by stressing the need for government policy to be more person focused rather than organisation focused. This was perhaps a reflection of the belief amongst many within the adult social care sector that the NHS as an organisation was given priority at the start of the crisis due to the ideational value which British society places upon it.
Stephen Dorrell stressed the need for the following actions to prepare adult social care:
- The Government must focus on the needs of the care system and must not be fixated on the NHS and acute care
- An effective test, track and trace system
- An emphasis on technology, which we know can improve our response to Covid-19 and to infection control