Call for new PM to Deliver on Social Care

Responding to the Rt Hon Liz Truss MP becoming PM, Kari Gerstheimer, CEO and Founder of Access Social Care said, ‘Liz Truss recently announced her plan to divert £13bn from NHS funding to finance local authority spending on social care. The sector can now only hope that she acts on these bold commitments without causing harm to an NHS already on the cusp of crisis. Access Social Care welcomes the recognition that, without a properly funded and adequately supported social care system, the capacity issues in hospitals and the health service will become yet more intolerable. However, the suggestion that we should divert vital financing from one service to pay for another seems deeply problematic.

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