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• Call to speed up social care and NHS health integration

  16-06-2023 13:13 via careindustrynews.co.uk
  
  CARE providers are calling on the Government to speed up actions to bring NHS healthcare and social care services closer together.Responding to the Hewitt Review and the Health and Social Care Select Committee (HSCC) Inquiry into the workings of the new Integrated Care Systems (ICS), the Government has pledged its support.And it has promised to give the ICS more autonomy, to reduce administrative burdens and to streamline their operation.The social care provider organisation, The Independent Car
  
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• ‘I live in fear of debt collectors’: disabled people tell of toll of soaring UK care costs

  16-06-2023 08:00
  
  Readers explain how they are being forced to give up essential social care or forgo meals and sanitary products Disabled people in England are finding themselves in severe financial hardship owing to rising social care costs and the increase in the cost of living.Social care, unlike the NHS, is not free at the point of need. As disabled people are being forced to pay for their care out of their benefits, some are finding themselves thousands of pounds in arrears to councils. Others are having to
  
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