The Spending Review: what does it mean for health and social care?
- Authors:
- NUFFIELD TRUST, HEALTH FOUNDATION, KING'S FUND
- Publishers:
- Nuffield Trust, Health Foundation, King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 9
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing assesses the impact of the Spending Review on health and social care. The paper argues that the Spending Review has provided some recognition of the pressures facing social care. However, it estimates that despite a growing older population and increasing demand for services, spending on social care as a proportion of GDP will slip back to around 0.9 per cent by the end of the parliament. Reductions in services have seen more than 400,000 people denied access to the care they need over the past five years and thousands more older and disabled people now face this prospect, further increasing the pressures on families, carers and the NHS. The paper calls for a new settlement which places health and social care on a sustainable footing for the future. (Edited publisher abstract)
- Subject terms:
- public expenditure, financing, cutbacks, social care provision, health care, government policy, budgetary control;
- Content type:
- research
- Location(s):
- England
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