Cross-party MPs request urgent non-partisan debate on future of NHS

Group tells Theresa May health system has been failing patients and call for public sector pay cap for NHS workers to be lifted

Ninety MPs including several senior Tories have urged Theresa May to launch a cross-party convention on the future of the NHS and social care in England.

Sarah Wollaston, chair of the Commons health committee, organised a letter in conjunction with Liberal Democrat former care minister Norman Lamb and Labour former shadow care minister Liz Kendall, that has been sent to the prime minister and the chancellor, Philip Hammond.

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. Govt also needs to focus on the long term, stop planning for health & social care in separate silos as this approach is setting us up for failure. Finance & workforce need urgent attention for the here & now but also for the long term & MPs from all Parties ready to engage

Current plans to kick social care into the long grass (again) & to separate planning for young and older adults creates even further fragmentation . Essential to think about whole system of NHS & Care

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