23.11.16 HPC Supports Calls for Additional Funding for Care Sector in Autumn Statement
With the Chancellor’s Autumns Statement due this week, the directors of
specialist property consultants HPC
have lent their voices to the increasing calls for additional funding for the
care sector.
Ian Wilkie of HPC
said, “It seems
that we hear the same story repeated every year, with a crisis in the NHS
caused by beds being “blocked” by frail elderly residents who could be
effectively cared for elsewhere. Annual real term increases in NHS funding have
failed to address this issue.” He added, “We are simultaneously hearing leaders in social care
crying out for additional funding, which has flat-lined in comparison, in order
to sustain a sector which has been put under immense pressure through increased
regulatory and fiscal burdens.”
Mr Wilkie suggests that the
arithmetic seems to support calls for the funding gap to be addressed. “We know
that good quality care can be provided in care homes
for around a third of the cost of an NHS hospital bed. It is surely time that
we created a functioning link between our health and
social care systems in such a way that both sustain our vital social
care sector, whilst making budgetary common sense.”
He concluded “we are sure
that voices have been sufficiently raised for Philip Hammond to be aware of the
issue and hope that he steps up to the plate to deliver a meaningful and
practical funding package for social care.”
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