{"id":1028,"date":"2022-08-25T17:03:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T16:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-in-i-news-on-liz-truss-decision-to-give-social-care-billions-meant-for-clearing-the-covid-backlog\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T17:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T16:03:51","slug":"dauk-in-i-news-on-liz-truss-decision-to-give-social-care-billions-meant-for-clearing-the-covid-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-in-i-news-on-liz-truss-decision-to-give-social-care-billions-meant-for-clearing-the-covid-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in i news on Liz Truss&#8217; decision to give social care billions meant for clearing the Covid backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Matt Kneale, co-chair of DAUK, said to <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/health\/nhs-leaders-condemn-liz-truss-idea-social-care-covid-backlog-1814027\">i news<\/a>: \u201cThe strategy announced by Liz Truss is a caricature of <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/health\/tory-governments-failed-deliver-past-nhs-promises-difficult-believe-new-backlog-plan-1449717?ico=in-line_link\">the Conservative approach to NHS funding for over a decade<\/a> \u2014 never adequate and instead the system is made to fight for scraps. Despite this, it is challenged with now tackling the largest backlog of cases it has ever seen, <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/health\/nhs-waiting-list-approaches-6-million-people-as-it-hits-new-record-high-1248277?ico=in-line_link\">with nearly 7 million patients suffering<\/a> and an ever-shrinking pool of staff to provide services.\n\n\u201cWithout <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/health\/how-to-fix-the-nhs-recruitment-changes-staff-exodus-healthcare-doctors-nurse-1389499?ico=in-line_link\">a steadfast long-term plan to tackle a staffing exodus<\/a>, backlogs and social care provision, the mission has failed before it has even begun.\u201d\n\nRead the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/health\/nhs-leaders-condemn-liz-truss-idea-social-care-covid-backlog-1814027\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Matt Kneale, co-chair of DAUK, said to i news: \u201cThe strategy announced by Liz Truss is a caricature of the Conservative approach to NHS&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}