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THE region’s councils will help run NHS services to try to tackle a growing social care crisis, under new Labour plans.
Ed Miliband backed a blueprint to create “pooled budgets” for the elderly, the disabled and people with long-term conditions including asthma, diabetes, stroke and mental health.
The idea follows rising alarm that social care is on the brink of collapse, with cash-starved councils unable to meet rising demand from an ageing population.
Earlier this year it was revealed that 45,000 elderly and disabled people across the North-East and Yorkshire have “lost” their council-funded care in just three years.
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/ne...help_run_NHS_services_under_new_Labour_plans/
Ed Miliband backed a blueprint to create “pooled budgets” for the elderly, the disabled and people with long-term conditions including asthma, diabetes, stroke and mental health.
The idea follows rising alarm that social care is on the brink of collapse, with cash-starved councils unable to meet rising demand from an ageing population.
Earlier this year it was revealed that 45,000 elderly and disabled people across the North-East and Yorkshire have “lost” their council-funded care in just three years.
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/ne...help_run_NHS_services_under_new_Labour_plans/