WHITEHALL

Innovation keeps the wheels on social care

With no prospects of long-term funding solutions, social care teams are having to focus on creative initiatives and partnership working – and the Autumn Statement has added to the pressure. Paul Marinko reports.

Every year there is a similar refrain from Whitehall about supporting health and social care through winter pressures.

Every year, hundreds of millions of pounds are dished out to help the two interwoven sectors manage the flow of patients from hospitals back into their homes or care places.

Paul Marinko

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