NHS cannot take more cuts to social care, say healthcare leaders

NHS cannot take more cuts to social care, say healthcare leaders Poll of senior NHS professionals finds 99% believe cuts to social care funding are putting pressure on the health service

Health service chiefs are to tell the government it must guarantee spending on social care as well as on hospitals if the NHS is to ride out five more years of austerity.

In a poll of more than 300 top managers and directors of NHS care bodies, 99% have warned that cuts to social care funding are loading extra pressure on the health service and 92% say such cuts are hitting their own organisations. Continue reading... The Guardian

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• Government must address social care funding, say NHS leaders OnMedica