09 March 2020
Ahead of the upcoming budget, we, along with 28 other medical societies, wrote to Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, highlighting the scale of the current challenges facing our NHS and social care services and asking the Government to invest in health and social care.
The letter focuses on the need for the Government to act to create a healthier, happier and fairer society with health and wellbeing at its centre. It notes our ageing society with "multiple health conditions, growing health and economic inequalities, an NHS and social care workforce at breaking point, a tired NHS estate and a fragile social care system".
The Local Government Association puts the Adult Social Care funding gap at £3.6 billion by 2024/25 and the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation calculates that public health similarly needs an extra £3.2 billion.
Together, we urge the government to focus on its manifesto pledge to "invest in preventing disease as well as curing it".
You can read the letter in full here.