A Birmingham City Council report into the new Sustainability and Transformation Plans for health services warns that the NHS risks side-lining social care and pushing more costs onto hard-up councils.
Plans to save the NHS millions could end up causing the collapse in the city’s social care system, a report has warned.
The Birmingham City Council report into the new Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STP) for health services in the city concludes that, instead of closer working, the NHS risks side-lining social care and pushing more costs onto hard-up councils.
So the NHS is aiming to keep more patients out of expensive hospital wards and accident and emergency departments by providing better access to GP and community services, including social care.