Conor McGinn MP Member of Parliament for St Helens North
I spoke at the Age UK Mid Mersey conference to highlight the enormous challenges facing social care лв with a funding gap of more than хЃ20 million in the health economy across St Helens.
I also pledged my support to Unison’s Ethical Care Charter which will establish key standards for the safety, quality and dignity of care by improving pay, conditions and training levels.
Social care has been pushed into a state of emergency. Cuts to adult social care budgets are expected to reach хЃ6.3 billion by the end of 2017/18 and the Tory Government has completely failed to set out a proper plan to fund it.
This is having a detrimental impact on care quality, and the estimated number of people with an unmet social care need in England could be as high as 2.35 million.
That’s why Labour is committed to give the NHS over хЃ30 billion of extra investment over the next parliament and invest an extra хЃ8 billion to tackle the crisis in social care.
We have committed as a Party to taking one million people off the waiting list and guaranteeing that patients can be seen within four hours in A&E.
In St Helens, we have a хЃ20 million shortfall across the health economy in the borough, piling more pressure onto already overstretched carers.
There is a crisis in our NHS and social care and we urgently need a Labour government to rescue services.
I also pledged my support to Unison’s Ethical Care Charter which will establish key standards for the safety, quality and dignity of care by improving pay, conditions and training levels.
Social care has been pushed into a state of emergency. Cuts to adult social care budgets are expected to reach хЃ6.3 billion by the end of 2017/18 and the Tory Government has completely failed to set out a proper plan to fund it.
This is having a detrimental impact on care quality, and the estimated number of people with an unmet social care need in England could be as high as 2.35 million.
That’s why Labour is committed to give the NHS over хЃ30 billion of extra investment over the next parliament and invest an extra хЃ8 billion to tackle the crisis in social care.
We have committed as a Party to taking one million people off the waiting list and guaranteeing that patients can be seen within four hours in A&E.
In St Helens, we have a хЃ20 million shortfall across the health economy in the borough, piling more pressure onto already overstretched carers.
There is a crisis in our NHS and social care and we urgently need a Labour government to rescue services.
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