Two former health secretaries and chair of select committee call for end to short-term thinking as crisis growsPhilip Hammond is facing a backlash from senior Tories after failing to provide any extra funds for social care in the budget and announcing only a “short-term fix” for the NHS. New draft plans dealing with the social care crisis are not now expected until next summer. “It is extremely important that the two words ‘social care’ didn’t pass the chancellor’s lips on budget day,” Dorrell said. It means that the chancellor could be engaged with a public spat with NHS chiefs just days after his autumn budget. “Health and social care is like a balloon – if you squeeze one part, another part pops out.

Source: The Guardian November 25, 2017 14:34 UTC