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GPs report increasing waits for routine social care assessments, problems securing respite care and being forced to seek hospital admission for patients who could have been kept at home with better social care and community support.
Four in five GPs also say that social care support for their patients has deteriorated over the past year and three quarters have struggled to access social care support for a patient who needed it, according to findings from a GPonline poll of 521 GPs.
The findings come after the government acknowledged pressure on social care in the spring budget earlier this year, pledging £2bn of new funding for social care over three years, starting in 2017/18.
http://www.gponline.com/exclusive-f...uts-driving-practice-workload/article/1429750
Four in five GPs also say that social care support for their patients has deteriorated over the past year and three quarters have struggled to access social care support for a patient who needed it, according to findings from a GPonline poll of 521 GPs.
The findings come after the government acknowledged pressure on social care in the spring budget earlier this year, pledging £2bn of new funding for social care over three years, starting in 2017/18.
http://www.gponline.com/exclusive-f...uts-driving-practice-workload/article/1429750
