The Department’s accounts do not provide sufficient information on key long–term financial pressures facing the health and social care system. Despite it being jointly responsible for health and social care in England, the Department’s accounts overwhelmingly focus on health services and do not give a clear overarching narrative on social care. The Department’s accounts contain very little information in key areas of interest to us, and to Parliament. This includes a lack of financial data on...

The Department’s accounts do not provide sufficient information on key long–term financial pressures facing the health and social care system. Despite it being jointly responsible for health and social care in England, the Department’s accounts overwhelmingly focus on health services and do not give a clear overarching narrative on social care. The Department’s accounts contain very little information in key areas of interest to us, and to Parliament. This includes a lack of financial data on the prevention of ill health in the first place, which has the biggest long–term impact on health outcomes, and on technological advances, which are nee Type: conclusion | Number: 2 | Response status: accepted Government response: The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendations. Accounts (ARA) to ensure the content is as transparent and informative as possible, both in the specific areas to which the Committee refers and in other emerging areas of public and parliamentary interest. Th