treatments for middle aged people, notjust treatments for middle aged people, notjust older people, for treatments for middle aged people, not just older people, for issues that were not just older people, for issues that were missed during the pandemic. and indeed with so many extra pandemic. and indeed with so many extra people dying right now, it is a serious extra people dying right now, it is a serious situation and the government has so far been relying on the government has so far been relying on the health service to continue to pick up on the health service to continue to pick up the on the health service to continue to pick up the slack. but with industrial action and the crisis in sociat industrial action and the crisis in social care, industrial action and the crisis in social care, a lot more needs to be done social care, a lot more needs to be done to social care, a lot more needs to be done to he social care, a lot more needs to be done to be focused
explain this to us? this is in a number of papers tomorrow, | explain this to us? this is in a . number of papers tomorrow, this is the ame sounding the alarm that we know about the ambulance delays and people waiting hours, sometimes day to get a bed in andy, saying the consequence of the crisis in the nhs could be 3 500 people a week dying because they aren t getting the care they need fast enough in emergency departments. and in addition to the impact, other people are getting delays to treatment elsewhere that with conditions or if they had been caught early, they could ve recovered fully, but they re delaying the treatment and the issues get compounded there. but i think one of the big stories going into 2023 will be the nhs in crisis. we ve known it was coming for the years, obviously the covid pandemic has exacerbated everything, but it now seems our health service is as in dyer a state as it was in the early months of the pandemic in terms of being overwhelmed with the number o
of care that we can offer people is often very, very limited and not able to offer support to enable people to stay independent. we can only offer support when people have become incredibly fragile and vulnerable, and that is not a happy experience for people receiving care and for their loved ones, but it then has all sorts of knock on effects. it has a knock on effect on the health service, where we have over 10,000 patients in hospital who don t need to be in hospital, aand one of the reasons they re in the hospital with often deteriorating hospitals, there isn t social care provision. and there s also impact on the economy because hundreds of thousands of people aren t able to work because either they have health conditions or care responsibilities or care needs that are not being addressed. the archbishop is right. the government has started to put a bit more money into social care
over the next couple of years, although that s a quid pro quo for delaying the reforms which were going to cap the amount of money people are going to have to pay for care. but after a decade or more of negligence, it s going to take several years to rebuild our social care system. croatia has become the latest country to adopt the euro as its currency. it has also joined europe s schengen zone, which allows internal travel without border checks. to mark the occasion, the the european commission president, ursula von der leyen has met croatia s prime minister, andrej plenkovic. the two grabbed a coffee in the capital zagreb. and, when it came to settling the bill, they paid in euros. speaking earlier at a border crossing, von der leyen praised croatia for its extraordinary successes . two immense achievements for the youngest member state of the european union, and both reached on the very same day.
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