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Reform of Social Care

The hon. Lady very well illustrates one reason why Andrew Dilnot's commission is, among its recommendations, looking to eliminate discrimination between residential and domiciliary care services. We should not have a system that tends to provide perverse incentives to go into residential care, or indeed one that prevents that from happening when it is the right thing. However, part of the reason why the Dilnot commission should be seen in its wider context is that we are looking towards innovative and more effective means of supporting people's independence at home. The Department is now looking towards the evaluation of the telehealth whole system demonstrator pilots, the world's largest randomised controlled trial of telehealth, which should come in a matter of weeks.