In his video column for the Farnham Herald, Greg Stafford discusses how talk of social care reform has dragged on for decades, but the time for plans and promises has passed. We are well beyond the point where delay is tolerable. The costs of inaction are real and mounting: patients stuck in hospital beds for want of community care, families breaking under the strain, and councils pushed to the brink.
As someone who worked in the NHS and now sits on the Health and Social Care Select Committee, I’ve seen the consequences up close.
As someone who worked in the NHS and now sits on the Health and Social Care Select Committee, I’ve seen the consequences up close.
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00:00Before I came into Parliament my career was in health and social care which is
00:03why I'm so pleased to be on the health and social care committee in Parliament
00:07we've just published this report on the cost of inaction in social care now the
00:11government talks a good game on social care but the reality is first of all
00:15they put national insurance contributions on social care which is
00:18really hitting the industry and as I go across the constituency I see that time
00:22and time again and also once again they kick the idea of social care into the
00:26long grass by commissioning yet another review this isn't the time for reviews
00:31this is the time for action and that's why we on this social care committee and
00:35me as your member of Parliament are calling for the government to pull its
00:39finger out and take action now