Social care finances

The Health Foundation and The King’s Fund have highlighted a worrying lack of progress on social care reform, in extensive new analysis of funding pressures and options for change. 

The additional money for the NHS is welcome, but it is still significantly less than the £4 billion we estimate the NHS needs next year.

The Green Paper will only be meaningful if it results in a fundamental reform to the social care system, says Simon Bottery.

The government must find at least £4 billion more for the NHS in the Budget to stop patient care deteriorating next year, three leading health charities warn today.