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• Budget for 40 new NHS hospitals faces real-terms cut of £700m, say Lib Dems

  20-11-2022 19:32
  Capital budget of £12bn a year to shrink to £11.7bn, putting Tories’ claim 40 hospitals in England will be built or renovated in doubtPlans by the government to construct and renovate 40 hospitals in England could be delayed because of new analysis suggesting the health and social care department’s capital spending budget faces a real-terms cut of £700m next year, according to the Liberal Democrats.With some hospitals said to be in dire need of repair, the health se
  
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• Steve Barclay refuses to say NHS in England is functioning properly

  20-11-2022 14:17
  Health secretary defends two-year delay to social care reforms, saying he is focused on backlogsThe health secretary has twice refused to say that the NHS is functioning properly, as he defended delays to capping the cost of social care, stressing he was focusing on the “immediate issue” of an operations backlog and ambulance delays.Steve Barclay said it had been a difficult decision to push back by two years plans put in place by Boris Johnson to “fix social care”, and a
  
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• Woman groomed and abused in care gets apology after 30 years

  20-11-2022 08:00
  Leeds city council letter accepting responsibility believed to be the first of its kindCarrie* is no stranger to a legal challenge. In 2018, alongside other women, she won a landmark case against the Home Office when she challenged a requirement that prostitution offences, including those acquired below the age of 18, be disclosed under criminal record checks.While Carrie, now 49, was giving a detailed statement to her lawyer dealing with this case, she described her time in care. Her childhood
  
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• Raising council tax to fund social care will deepen inequality in UK, experts warn

  20-11-2022 07:00
  Jeremy Hunt’s plans criticised for delay to reform, shifting burden to local authorities and ‘skewing the system’Jeremy Hunt’s decision to fund more social care through increases in council tax will deepen inequality and undermine the cause of “levelling up”, the architect of the government’s planned reforms said last night.The criticism from Andrew Dilnot, the economist whose blueprint for reform was delayed by another two years in Hunt’s first bu
  
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