The ‘alarming’ funding gap in social care has hit at least 400,000 people in England, leaving them without the care they need, a health report has revealed.
A new paper from the Health Foundation called on the next Government to pay ‘immediate attention’ to England’s struggling social care system, which faces a funding gap of £2.1bn by 2019/20.
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