Health Care

The Government has been disingenuous when it says that health care funding was protected in the cuts. I say this because while it has protected NHS funding you have to realise that health care is more than just the NHS.

When the Government made cuts to local councils, this includes a sizeable part of the health care system. Local Government manages perhaps the most important elements of health care- the care of the elderly and disabled in the home or care homes. All of these services are managed by local government and we now know that local government has had its funding from central government cut by, on average, 8.5%, and these cuts have been front loaded.

What this means is that those hidden health services will not be there - people will  not receive the support they need to stay at home . We are starting to see reports that patients who should be sent home are being kept in hospital because the local services are not there that the patients need in order to be dischanged from hospital.