Now the election is over, politicians have sidelined social care again

[Northerner]

It was interesting to watch the sudden spike of interest in social care during the general election campaign. The public debate was welcome, but now the dust has settled what action has actually been taken?

The fallout from the “dementia tax” made it appear as though, for once, social care was being given the same level of priority as the NHS. People were calling for its protection as forcefully as they do our health service.

Since then, a Care Quality Commission report revealed that nearly a fifth of adult social care services have been rated as inadequate or requiring improvement and public sector cuts are thought to be behind a sudden stall in life expectancy. Yet neither of these stories has earned the same degree of public scrutiny or government response as social care did before the election. The interest in social care risks looking like a one-off.

We’ve been promised a green paper, which must address issues such as long-term funding and care worker shortages. What it must not be is false hope, another document that talks about change but offers no real action.

https://www.theguardian.com/social-.../general-election-social-care-being-sidelined

 

[pav]

You can always tell when a politician is lying espec at election times, they open their mouths or put info on social media. 😱

 

[Bill Stewardson]

It was interesting to watch the sudden spike of interest in social care during the general election campaign. The public debate was welcome, but now the dust has settled what action has actually been taken?

The fallout from the “dementia tax” made it appear as though, for once, social care was being given the same level of priority as the NHS. People were calling for its protection as forcefully as they do our health service.

Since then, a Care Quality Commission report revealed that nearly a fifth of adult social care services have been rated as inadequate or requiring improvement and public sector cuts are thought to be behind a sudden stall in life expectancy. Yet neither of these stories has earned the same degree of public scrutiny or government response as social care did before the election. The interest in social care risks looking like a one-off.

We’ve been promised a green paper, which must address issues such as long-term funding and care worker shortages. What it must not be is false hope, another document that talks about change but offers no real action.

https://www.theguardian.com/social-.../general-election-social-care-being-sidelined

The slow but inevitable demise of our NHS is subject to cherry picking by our media dependant on its political bias.

Cancer patients are being denied life preserving drugs, a quarter of terminally ill patients are not getting the care they need (what greater corporate crime is there ?), nursing shortages, Drs heading abroad, ambulances taking longer, GP appts more and more distant, NHS pay falling further behind yet we have talk of record investment,, on and on,

When Flashman really set about the NHS there was always going to be a time lag, he is gone, the lag has gone by, the effects are here.

Worse is yet to come.

About those testing meters ,,,,, ?

 

[Northerner]

I must admit I found it particularly hypocritical when 'the minister' was suggesting lives were being put at risk during the junior doctor's strike - how many lives have suffered or been shortened by the relentless under funding and squeeze on health and social care? The government response to any news about lack of funding or resources is always to come out with a big number - £Xbn is being spent - or a relative figure - there are X more nurses and doctors than in 2010 - which never addresses the actual NEED. We've known since the 1950s that there would be a lot more older people now, because that's when they were born, but there has been no planning to support the extra need. Result, perpetual crisis