Care home operators, trade unions and charities have been telling Theresa May for months that the care home industry is in crisis and needs help.
Last week, May got her sternest warning yet the chairs of three influential Commons committees urged the prime minister to deal with the immense challenge of paying for health and social care in the future.
We are calling for a new political consensus to take this forward, Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston of the health committee, Labours Meg Hillier of the public accounts committee and Clive Betts, another Labour MP, of the communities and local government committee wrote.
Since the collapse in 2011 of Southern Cross, then Britains biggest care home operator, no other major nationwide co…
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