As a “twin hatter”, i.e. a director of adults as well as children’s services, I listened to the announcement last week about funding for health and adult social care with a heavy heart.
No one disputes that significant extra resources are needed. However, the allocation for adult social care is negligible compared to the scale of need. It is a privilege to have our NHS, and free health care is a precious resource that is too easily taken for granted, but if we don’t balance the funding for acute services with more resource for community care and support, plus health and wellbeing work, we will never make progress to reduce or manage need better, whatever someone’s age.
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