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• Chancellor wrong on social care funding, says former health secretary – video

  27-11-2016 13:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Stephen Dorrell, a senior Tory and former health secretary, speaks to BBC One’s Andrew Marr about the Autumn Statement which was delivered by Chancellor Philip Hammond on Wednesday. Dorrell says that Hammond made a mistake in omitting any extra funding for social care from his plans, as the issue has a direct impact on A&E departments and the NHSPhilip Hammond mistaken on social care funding - senior ToryContinue reading...
  
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• Philip Hammond mistaken on social care funding - senior Tory

  27-11-2016 11:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell ‘very disappointed’ chancellor dismissed calls for extra funding in autumn statementPhilip Hammond made a mistake in failing to give more funding to social care in the autumn statement, Stephen Dorrell has said.The former Conservative health secretary and chair of the NHS Confederation joined other senior Tories, including former health secretary Andrew Lansley and Sarah Wollaston, the chair of the House of Commons health select committee, in e
  
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• Shamefully, the autumn statement said nothing about social care | Jennifer Dixon and Anita Charlesworth

  27-11-2016 01:20 via theguardian.com
  
  The gap is widening between short-termist welfare budgets and real needsThe chancellor’s autumn statement was met with incredulity and dismay by many in health and social care. Incredulity because the unusually extensive analysis and briefing on the state of the NHS and social services was so brazenly ignored, and this when the NHS is top of the list of issues the public holds dear. Dismay because of the likely consequences for the very groups in society that, ironically, the PM has pledge
  
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