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Pandemic has exposed how fragile social care system is, report warns
The Government must urgently deliver on its pledge to fix social care, a coalition of 15 national health organisations has warned today.
A new report warns the pandemic has highlighted the failings and underlying weaknesses of the social care system, which must be drastically overhauled.
Health for Care sets out how the NHS relies heavily on the social care system, including guarding against unplanned emergency admissions and ensuring timely hospital discharge to community settings.
Danny Mortimer, chair of the coalition and chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: The NHS and social care are sister services and have been supporting one another and working closely together throughout the pandemic. However, when one service does not work, the other suffers, and the past few months have brutally exposed how fragile and under-resourced England’s social care system has become.