Former pension minister Ros Altmann has described the care pledges outlined in the 2017 Spring Budget as a "missed opportunity" to address the "current crisis" and warned: "The NHS will fall over if we don't sort this out."
Despite Chancellor Philip Hammond's £2bn spending pledge for social care - which Altmann described as "a sticking plaster on a weeping wound" - and confirmation of a Green Paper on the subject to be published later this year, the pensions expert remained deeply concerned about the care crisis. "We need a whole range of solutions - that's the problem," said Altmann (pictured). "The problem is so big there is no one best solution. "We have this massive, massive cost that we cannot avoid because people are in need of care and you must give it to them - if they don't get it, they will die...
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