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Boris Johnson’s plan for funding social care reform and NHS recovery is best described as long-awaited. Which doesn’t mean, as professor of public policy and public management Catherine Needham points out, it’s something to applaud.
The NHS is staring down a pandemic-induced backlog, the costs of which run into the tens of billions. And the social care sector has faced similar yearly shortfalls since at least the 1980s, meaning that while more and more people need support, fewer are actually getting it.
So it might seem natural that any attempt to find the funds to fix this needs to finance the urgent and the long-standing problems simultaneously. Needham’s expertise in the care system has her questioning whether Johnson’s plans won’t instead leave both issues unresolved.
In further stories of health and uncertainty, women who choose to freeze their eggs will soon be able to store them for 55 years – but research suggests that won’t mean more older mothers. And epidemiologists have found a link between teenage infections and multiple sclerosis.
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Dale Berning Sawa
Acting commissioning editor, Cities and Young People
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Catherine Needham, University of Birmingham
The government proposes to fix social care and rescue the NHS in one go. The levy it proposes risks only scratching the surface
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The limit has been extended from ten years to up to 55 years.
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Kylie Baldwin, De Montfort University
Frozen eggs will be stored for up to 55 years in the UK.
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Scott Montgomery, UCL
Infections diagnosed in a hospital between ages 11 and 19 are associated with an increased risk of multiple sclerosis.
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