“Hopson blames the “full-blown crisis in social care” created by cuts to town hall budgets for causing “major problems for the NHS”, such as record numbers of healthy patients who cannot be discharged because social care is not available.”
A friend was telling me about problems in California hospitals. ‘Homeless’ individuals came into the ER for treatment & then could not be released because CA legislators passed a law requiring that anyone being released had to be released to a specific address. For a while the hospitals were dropping them off at a homeless shelter, but the legislators over-ruled that as an option. So what did they do? They paid for three days in a hotel for the vagrants. All the while driving up the costs of medical care for everyone else. There ought to be a sanity test for anyone running for office.
I think there is... Anyone who does not pass the test gets to run as a Democrat.
And anyone who fails the test, but does not run for office, gets to VOTE as a Democrat.