English pilots to include older people's views in shaping health care

doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7536.258-a

BMJ 2006;332:258 (4 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7536.258-a

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English pilots to include older people’s views in shaping health care

London Caroline White

The government is poised to give older people the right to shape their local health and social care services. The aim is to cut levels of poverty, social exclusion, and associated poor health in Britain’s population of over 50s.

The Link Age Plus programme will be piloted this spring in eight local authority areas across England, from Devon in the south west to Tyne and Wear in the north east, with a view to rolling it out nationally in 2008, pending successful evaluation.

Spearheaded by the Department of Work and Pensions the programme borrows heavily from the government’s Sure Start programme, which aims to eradicate health and social inequalities for children and young people by providing integrated services and focusing on prevention.

Link Age Plus is one of a raft of cross departmental legislative and policy measures published last week in a report issued by the social . . . [Full text of this article]

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