A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
BRITAIN’S privatised care sector is broken, NHS campaigners have warned as figures today reveal nearly 4,000 long-stay hospital patients are not being discharged due to rehabilitation and home care delays every day.
Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) urged the government to “properly integrate” the fragmented care sector within the NHS as the first ever analysis of NHS England discharge delay data was released.
Health chiefs called for “appropriate funding” to end the “capacity crunch of staff and beds in social care and community health services.”
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
