Liz Truss plan to divert NHS funds to social care is ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’
by Rowena Mason Deputy political editor from World news | The Guardian on (#62VPH)
Health expert says NHS needs money too and diverting promised 13bn is not a sustainable solution
Liz Truss would be robbing Peter to pay Paul" if she diverted 13bn of funding for the NHS to deal with a Covid backlog in social care, experts have said.
The Conservative leadership frontrunner told a hustings on Tuesday night that she would spend the 13bn earmarked for the NHS to catch up on delayed treatment after Covid on social care instead.
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