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January 12, 2018 at 3:36 pm #434

40% of NHS Walk-in centres have closed since 2010.
We have seen a loss of 14,000 NHS beds, to date.
How many A&E departments are being closed or downgraded?
The number of District Nurses in England has been cut by 28%.

Why repeatedly cut funding for social care, particularly for vulnerable elderly people when it has been recognised that the primary reason for so called ‘bed-blockers’ is that there aren’t enough services in the community to enable safe discharge or to avoid hospital admission in the first place?