• Don’t merge social care and the NHS | Letters

    Don’t merge social care and the NHS | Letters
    Better integration, yes, merger, no: social care has always been the weaker sister and would lose out furtherMerging the NHS and social care is a very bad idea (“Sajid Javid working on radical plan to integrate social care with health”, News). Better integration, yes, merger, no. Your article says that the plan “would amount to one of the most far-reaching reforms since the NHS was founded in 1948”. It would – with devastating impacts on social care and on the NHS.

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