This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Petition Reintroduce the Health and Social Care Levy
Reinstate the Government's specific levy to increase funding for health and social care, to address long-standing funding deficits and inadequacies in these sectors, and help them recover following the impact of Covid.
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The gross inadequacies of the social care system have been a running sore for decades, a problem which both major parties have neglected.
The UK's population is ageing, so every year of neglect allows the problems to worsen. At the last General Election a plan to address these problems was promised, and later a funding plan was introduced. But now these provisions have been withdrawn.
The UK's NHS has been tested almost to destruction by the Covid pandemic, and needs additional funding to recover.
This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months