Exclusive: Social care £2bn won't get NHS through winter, ministers warned

Philip hammond

Ministers’ headline budget pledge to alleviate pressure on the NHS by handing councils an extra £2bn for social care will fail to deliver “anything like the level of resource” required, NHS leaders have warned.

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