What does 2017 hold for social care?

Technology and integration with the NHS could transform the sector, but we must debate alternative sources of fundingPerhaps 2016 will be remembered as the year the UK social care services reached crisis point.The headlines were bleak: significant funding gaps in community services for older people, which could increase to £2.6bn by 2020; delays in discharging medically fit patients from hospital; regular breaches of safe hospital bed occupancy levels; a misalignment between government and