“It’s so blindingly - excuse my language - bleedin’ obvious that in an intelligent, affluent, civilised society we get this done.” Sir Andrew Dilnot tearing strips off the government yesterday for deferring addressing the crisis in social care until 2028. (1/3) www.theguardian.com/society/2025... - ThreadSky

doctoroxford.com • 63 days ago

“It’s so blindingly - excuse my language - bleedin’ obvious that in an intelligent, affluent, civilised society we get this done.”

Sir Andrew Dilnot tearing strips off the government yesterday for deferring addressing the crisis in social care until 2028. (1/3)

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/08/three-year-planning-phase-for-england-social-care-reform-is-too-long-says-expert?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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janel1.bsky.social•63 days ago

This is terrible and seems senseless

janecelliott.bsky.social•63 days ago

Nobody wants to be honest about how much all of this is going to cost, and how it will need to be funded. I’m afraid the tax payer won’t stomach it, and various governments know this.

alloutgreen.bsky.social•62 days ago

People have suffered for so long already due to neglect/abuse of their needs, a further 3 years feels like both business as usual from an uncaring govt and a kick in the teeth by a the govt elected to rectify it.
E.g. lone parent (me) suicide risk since 2013: 2x10hrs MH care. 5yrs since last appt
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alloutgreen.bsky.social•62 days ago

For anyone who doesn't know when as an adult you raise the courage to admit you're thinking of ending your life (entirely foreseeable for a person in massive pain 24/7) you get referred. Takes about a year.

S1E1: You start 1hr sessions with psychologist. In Ep 8 you're told there's 2 left

2/

alloutgreen.bsky.social•62 days ago

Your world falls apart again. You trusted someone & opened up to them. You've barely scratched the surface and it's ending.

You're told them sessions are capped at 10 after which a new referral is needed.

You wait 12-18 months to start at S2E1 & try to pick up where you left off

3/

alloutgreen.bsky.social•62 days ago

That's doable (just) if you get put with the same psychologist and didn't kill yourself during the wait with no support at all.

Series 2 - you start again, ever mindful of the 10 session ticking clock & no certainty of a series 3.

By S2E6 you're told to create a plan for life after S2.

4/

alloutgreen.bsky.social•62 days ago

Turns out treatment has been capped at 2 sets of 10 appointments.

You barely recapped S1 and now after opening yourself up to even more vulnerability you'll be left to your own devices in 4 weeks.
Living in the darkest corners of your mind was so much easier. Should've just checked out ages ago

5/

alloutgreen.bsky.social•62 days ago

S2E8 Hello darkness my old friend

The next 2 weeks are just brave facing. Making it look like you'll be ok because you know your therapist feels bad about it all.

In truth you've checked out that 1 corner in which you can get comfy and avoid the light. You're moving back in in 10 days.

6/

kentishwabbit.bsky.social•63 days ago

It's so depressing

louwhit15.bsky.social•63 days ago

Can’t sort out the NHS without getting social care sorted and quickly, but private health sector will be happy taking up some of the slack

rasushrestha.bsky.social•63 days ago

That’s like Groundhog Day, all over again.

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malayarchipelago61.bsky.social•63 days ago

Totally obvious. Short term politicians though always knife any proposal from the other side. The May plan in 2017 was decent but destroyed by Labour shroud waving and electioneering

lynnejonesorguk.bsky.social•63 days ago

Maybe the Government could be consistent in its arguments. Quite rightly they say we should get on with recommendations from already completed inquiries into child abuse. So why not have a look at all the already completed reviews on social care - including the Royal Commission set up by Blair!

mickrab.bsky.social•63 days ago

Applies here also.
https://bsky.app/profile/mickrab.bsky.social/post/3lfabnqbnzk2o

saltsplace.bsky.social•63 days ago

There is a wealth of information, experiences & examples to use. Simply put, we really do need numerous additional staff working in community settings (community nurses, HCAs, support workers); more community-based beds (short-term in community hospitals & longer term in care homes) & more GPs.

shropshiregreenman.bsky.social•63 days ago

The irony of of Labour insisting of a long and costly inquiry into Social Care while yesterday insisting that we don't need another long and costly inquiry into grooming gangs, and we should just 'get on with it'...

doctoroxford.com•63 days ago

Dilnot was commissioned in 2011 to report on how to fund social care. His proposals were accepted. Yet Labour has commissioned *another* report, kicking the issue away until 2028.

But 1 in 8 beds contain medically fit patients needing social care. And people in overcrowded A&Es are dying NOW. (2/3)

rachw.bsky.social•63 days ago

There is also a cohort of people who may not be completely medically fit but would benefit from receiving more pragmatic care in their own homes, if only the support was available.

mccheapo.bsky.social•62 days ago

I don't understand why the hospitals where this is a really big problem cannot build another ward(s) or nearby community hospital / care home that patients can move to as an interim measure. I gather these spaces would be cheaper and obv it would free up space in the main hospital.

#UKpolitics

doctoroxford.com•63 days ago

We know that long A&E waits cause around 300 avoidable deaths every week in England. People’s mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers - people who did not need to die.

And Labour’s lack of political courage on social care - despite their immense majority - is making them partly culpable. (3/3)

susanglh.bsky.social•63 days ago

I was registered at a GP practice where the "care navigators" routinely told people to go to A&E. I have changed practice now but people who answer phones should not be instructed to do that.

ianb3019.bsky.social•63 days ago

A&E is like the ninth circle of Hell. Four hour wait was typical last time I was there. People are waiting so long now they're passing out on the floor.

But at least it's not as bad as dentistry.

freedomforall.net•63 days ago

Labour have been subject to corporate capture. Don't expect anything fresh from them until the MPs feel threatened and change leader. Even then it's likely too late to stop them facilitating Reform or reformed Tories making the next govt. This is what happens when you reject socialism on the left.

nigelk.uk•63 days ago

@skyview.social please unroll

daveharvey.bsky.social•63 days ago

More so are the people going to A&E that have nothing Accident or Emergency wrong with them.

bill6750.bsky.social•63 days ago

The markets run Britain. Reeves won’t upset them and borrow the 1 trillion we need to sort out the country. It’ll be a piggy bank approach hoping for growth to save us. Sorry.

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