Care cuts could put patients' safety at risk, warn MPs

Commons public accounts committee has warned against advice to cut spending to NHS’s Continuing Healthcare

Calls for cuts to the cost of care for some ill and disabled patients could put safety at risk, MPs have said.

Officials want local health bodies to cut the amount spent on the NHS’s Continuing Healthcare (CHC) funding packages and NHS-funded nursing care by hundreds of millions of pounds over coming years.

Continue reading... January 17, 2018 at 05:39AM