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The NHS will face more winter crises if social care funding is not protected in the next Budget, the Local Government Association has warned.
LGA chair David Sparks has called on Chancellor George Osborne to use next month’s Budget to protect the social care funding so councils to support the NHS and prepare for reforms starting in April. These include the launch of the Better Care Fund and the introduction of provisions under the Care Act.
If social care was not ring-fenced in a similar way to the NHS, which has had its budget protected since 2010, the current crisis caused by funding pressures would get worse, he said. It had already contributed to record levels of demand in the NHS, he stated.
http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news...nhs-crisis-if-social-care-faces-further-cuts/
LGA chair David Sparks has called on Chancellor George Osborne to use next month’s Budget to protect the social care funding so councils to support the NHS and prepare for reforms starting in April. These include the launch of the Better Care Fund and the introduction of provisions under the Care Act.
If social care was not ring-fenced in a similar way to the NHS, which has had its budget protected since 2010, the current crisis caused by funding pressures would get worse, he said. It had already contributed to record levels of demand in the NHS, he stated.
http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news...nhs-crisis-if-social-care-faces-further-cuts/