"A new tax is needed to ensure the UK has a properly funded health and social care system, doctor and ex-Conservative health minister Dan Poulter has said.
The Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP told the Observer that difficulties in arranging social care for patients was having a major impact on hospitals.
Raising National Insurance "offers one of the simplest ways forward", he said.
The Department of Health said its plan to introduce a cap on care costs in England in 2020 had not changed.
Mr Poulter stepped down from his Department of Health post last year and now works as an MP and a part-time doctor in the NHS.
He told the Observer: "On the hospital wards I often see people who are medically fit to go home, but who are forced to stay in hospital because of difficulties arranging their social care package, or because of a lack of appropriate housing...
"A long-term plan to ensure a properly funded and sustainable health and social care system is urgently required.""
Source: New tax needed to fund NHS and care, says ex-minister - BBC News
Why didn't he say so during election campaign???
Bring on NHS Tax on payrolls: Employee and Employer ones, start low with 2% and slowly replace all NHS money with just that tax, which in no way the same as NICs, you've heard it on here first...
The Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP told the Observer that difficulties in arranging social care for patients was having a major impact on hospitals.
Raising National Insurance "offers one of the simplest ways forward", he said.
The Department of Health said its plan to introduce a cap on care costs in England in 2020 had not changed.
Mr Poulter stepped down from his Department of Health post last year and now works as an MP and a part-time doctor in the NHS.
He told the Observer: "On the hospital wards I often see people who are medically fit to go home, but who are forced to stay in hospital because of difficulties arranging their social care package, or because of a lack of appropriate housing...
"A long-term plan to ensure a properly funded and sustainable health and social care system is urgently required.""
Source: New tax needed to fund NHS and care, says ex-minister - BBC News
Why didn't he say so during election campaign???
Bring on NHS Tax on payrolls: Employee and Employer ones, start low with 2% and slowly replace all NHS money with just that tax, which in no way the same as NICs, you've heard it on here first...
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