The whole thing is a sham to be quite frank. After 3 years of knocking on MP's doors and writing and reading responses to that writing I am feeling done with it all and feel like chucking the towel in tbh. But, giving up now would be a mistake.
The current proposal to not address immediately social care and the issues the system is facing now, putting aside care fees is frankly unbelievable
Propping up the NHS with this new rise in NI is to me a realisation that they got things wrong, and yes we love our NHS, but it can't function unless we have an adequate social care system which is not not going to be able to help the NHS function if we are told how social care and the NHS will become more joined up. Its robbing Peter to pay Paul until Oct 2023 if what we are told becomes a reality. In the interim is a very long pause for social care. The NHS does amazing things, but so too does social care.
In 2019 I asked my MP to lobby the then Minister Caroline Dinenage, in closing her letter she wrote this:
Dementia is a major health and care challenge of our time, and we are working to improve care and support to make this the best country in the world to live with the condition'
As well as the broken promises of late, I don't see how the recent proposals will make any difference to dementia care