I would like to say that I would have been shocked, but I know that the system just gets worse and worse each year as the pressure builds and corners have to be cut, and it is older people and their families who are paying the price. How can any “care” be given in five minutes? Of course it cannot. It does not make financial sense in the long run, because we have a care system that does not provide people with support in their own homes, buts leaves them to drift towards hospital, leaving our acute hospitals increasingly and unsustainably full of frail older people.
Care Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Andy Burnham
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 16 December 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Care Bill [Lords].
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