Last year's survey found that social care budgets had been cut by 12% in cash terms under the coalition government, while demand for services had grown by 14%, largely because of the ageing population. Councils are forecasting a £4.3bn black hole in social care funding in England by 2020 (The Guardian, June 2nd 2015)
A cut of £200 million in Local Authority public health budgets which fund many services such as school nursing, screening programmes, and smoking cessation programmes – despite recognition by the boss of NHS England of the need for “a radical upgrade in prevention and public health”. It is feared that this cut will not only affect preventative and public health services but will also have a serious knock on effect on NHS healthcare services (www.patients4nhs.org.uk )
With mental health beds reduced by 8% since 2010, Winstanley warns there is no time to lose and that without action more people will have to travel miles for a appropriate care. “Even worse, thousands of people, including children, end up in police cells each year because they can’t get the treatment they need,” (The Guardian Wednesday 13th may 2015)
26 different treatments for breast, bowel, prostate and other cancers will cease to be funded from November this year. (The Independent, Friday 4 September 2015)
“If you get rid of support staff, their work does not disappear. Instead, it will mean frontline staff picking up extra paperwork and spending less time with patients." (The Telegraph, 04 Aug 2015)
According to senior health officials; the NHS England are looking at a funding gap in the next financial year of an astonishing £2bn. (www.trisofthealth.co.uk)
Labour said that health service finances have "deteriorated on the Government's watch"
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