Social care funding crisis leaves the NHS in limbo

Social care funding crisis leaves the NHS in limbo The health service can’t plan its next decade with confidence until the entire care system has a comprehensive deal

Four themes dominated this year’s gathering of the health service clan at the NHS Confederation’s annual conference in Manchester: priorities for the new money, avoiding another winter crisis, re-energising the redesign of clinical services, and finding, keeping and training the staff to do it all. The Guardian

See also:

• Make social care free to save NHS, say ex-Labour and Tory Ministers The Independent
• Theresa May to warn social care must wait until 2020 for extra funds, despite pledging £20bn for NHS The Independent