The Care Quality Commission said staff shortages, rising demand and increasing numbers of patients with preventable illnesses meant services were straining at the seams. “Today, the NHS and social care are dealing with obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, cancers, dementia. The Lib Dem health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said: “Our NHS and care services are surviving on borrowed time. The CQC said long-term funding continued to be a problem, despite the government investing £2bn into the social care system. “We are just one bad winter away from another crisis in our health system.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2017 22:52 UTC