College plans a centre for the reform of long-term care
Green Templeton plans to launch a new centre to drive reform of long-term care in the UK
Green Templeton College is developing a first-ever academic centre for long-term care in Oxford. The centre aims to become a major agenda-setter in the reform of long-term care in the UK, responding to what experts describe as one of the most urgent and complex social challenges facing the country.
Focusing on long-term care for older people, the Centre will take a whole-system approach that brings together people, provision, and policy. It will examine care both as a service, and as a network of relationships. Those relationships involve those who receive care, those who provide it both formally and informally, and the policies, funding systems, and regulations that shape the sector.
The Centre’s mission is ambitious: to help build a society in which care is available, affordable and responsive to people’s needs, and where no care-related need goes unmet. Its vision is of a future in which long-term care is properly researched, recognised, rewarded and funded, with care systems equipped to deliver good care for all who need it.
We are entering a new era of care. We need a step change in how we understand, organise, and value care. This Centre will fill the gap: a truly independent place where research, lived experience, and leadership come together to shape better quality and living in later life. It is about applying the best knowledge and resources for reflection and evidence-based solutions to tackle the toughest questions to ensure momentum and accountability.’
- Professor Mary Daly, Founder of the Care Initiative, Green Templeton College.
Green Templeton is uniquely placed to bring together the strengths of every academic discipline, all working to understand the world and our relationship to it. This Centre will offer a valuable role to give all key stakeholders the space and time to reflect on how changes can be made and the necessary reforms achieved.
- Dr Nicholas Hicks, Associate Fellow, Green Templeton College and Senior Strategy Advisor, System Strategy Unit, Department of Health and Social Care.
Harnessing Oxford’s multidisciplinary research strengths and global reach, the Centre will ensure that the latest evidence on long-term care is actively translated towards change in policy and practice. Central to its approach will be co-producing solutions with people who have lived experience of long-term care, alongside policymakers, practitioners, civil society and researchers.
A flagship annual Summit will convene leading decision-makers, analysts and stakeholders to take stock of the state of long-term care, identify pressing problems, develop promising reforms, and generate an agenda for change. Insights from the Summit will shape the Centre’s research priorities, knowledge curation and outreach, feeding directly into activities to enable reform.
With its big-picture orientation and focus on the future sustainability of care systems, the Centre will position itself as a platform for leadership and innovation. It will place cutting-edge research at the service of those working to transform long-term care in the UK, with lessons for other countries.
If you would like further information about our plans for the Centre, please contact:
Jo Human, Senior Development Executive, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
