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Once again market methods are being posed as the solution to the growing NHS and social care crisis, says HELEN O’CONNOR

ANYONE who has worked on the front lines of the NHS delivering services to patients knows that workloads are increasing and pay is not keeping up with the cost of living.
Some will even have been around long enough to remember the false claims that private investment would improve services and being told that carving up NHS services would bring modern and innovative healthcare solutions closer to peoples homes while enabling NHS organisations and their staff to deliver “seamless services.”
What has developed is that the public are faced with a confusing array of services that are further away from the home than ever before and family homes are being traded in for the spiralling costs of privatised care placements.
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