He will be joined by Baroness Louise Casey, who is leading the Independent Commission on Adult Social Care which will draw up recommendations to deliver a National Care Service. Meanwhile, new health and social care secretary Yvette Cooper also earmarked social care as a priority in her first speech last week at a nurse leaders event, hosted by the chief nursing office. Commenting ahead of the speech today, unions, think tanks and organisations representing NHS leaders said they welcomed taking a cross-party approach on social care reform. “Health service leaders will do all they can to help make any reform of the social care system a success,” said Mr Devane. Hugh Alderwick, director of policy and research at the Health Foundation, said: “We welcome the prime minister’s commitment to tackle social care reform and use his political capital to do it.