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NHS cuts could jeopardise patient safety, MPs warn
Calls for cuts to NHS’s Continuing Healthcare (CHC) funding packages could put patient safety at risk, the Commons public accounts committee has warned.
Officials want the amount spent on the NHS’s CHC packages and NHS-funded nursing care cut by hundreds of millions of pounds over the next few years.
The committee said it was unclear how this could be done without raising the threshold for eligibility or limiting the packages available, both of which will put patient safety at risk.
CHC is a form of care provided outside of the hospital environment that is arranged and funded by the NHS through clinical commissioning groups.
The committee’s new report on CHC states that ‘too often’ patients’ care is compromised because they are unaware of the funding available or are not guided through the ‘hugely complicated’ process of accessing funding.
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