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Social care staff carrying out tasks previously undertaken by NHS, without extra funding, say directors

Community Care

Drop in eligibility for continuing healthcare But the finding comes amid a drop in the rate of people found to be eligible for NHS continuing healthcare (CHC), under which the health service fully funds social care for people whose need for it arises primarily from a health condition.

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No funded social care commitments in Labour manifesto

Community Care

Labour will develop local partnership working between the NHS and social care on hospital discharge. As part of the efforts to move healthcare into local communities and professionalise the workforce, we will task regulators with assessing the role social care workers can play in basic health treatment and monitoring.