Social care funding plea amid NHS crisis

By Dan Peters | 04 January 2018

Social care directors have warned delays to operations and hospital admissions will continue without a long-term sustainable funding solution for their sector.

As the NHS in England struggles to cope with mounting winter pressures, vice-president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, Glen Garrod, warned pressure on hospitals would increase unless his sector was ‘adequately resourced’ by the Government.

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