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Chancellor to Increase Social Care Funding, but Reform Delayed for Two Years
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced a wave of new funding for the NHS and social care, with an £8bn support package for the health and care system in his autumn statement earlier this month. Mr Hunt announced he is to increase the NHS budget over the next two years by an extra £3.3 billion and announced an increase in funding for the social care sector of up to £2.8 billion next year and £4.7 billion in 2024, which the Chancellor said was the ‘biggest increase in funding under any government of
any colour in history’ and would allow the delivery of an extra 200,000 care packages. The Chancellor also allocated social care additional grant funding of £1bn next year and £1.7bn the year after to ‘help free up some of the 13 and half thousand hospital beds that are occupied by those that should be at home. ‘
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