Local Authorities Pressure from NHS

Care Aware
Jul 31, 2023
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Over half of local authority social services departments say they have seen an increase in the numbers of people needing social care due to delays to hospital admissions or not being admitted at all with 81% saying that increased NHS pressures will lead to adult social care taking responsibility for services which previously the NHS would have arranged or delivered.

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