Labour pledge free health care for over 65’s in England
It’s conference season for all the political parties. Right now, it is Labours turn and so far, there has been a whole range of debates roaring. But the one that caught our eye was a pledge from Labour to give free health care to those who are aged 65 and over, and to those who really need it.
ProCare Nursing are a health care provider and service the south west of England. It will be interesting to see how things will unfold over the next few months, from Brexit proceedings to a possible general election, to a possible re-call of Parliament, either way you look at it exciting times are ahead good or bad.
But pledges like the one made by Labour at their conference will need to be debated in Parliament, so we can only hope that will happen. Things like the financing of this pledge will need to be debated because free care will come at a cost to taxpayers and no doubt other political parties will have something to say about it, including the general public.
We also have to consider the ageing population, in June this year we talked about the need for 20,000 extra carers by 2034, if Labour were to make healthcare free for over 65’s then they would be funding that care for many years to come as people live longer, the costs could be huge funding free health care.
There are obvious benefits to delivering free health care, a lot of elderly people cannot afford health care in older age, this pledge would safeguard a lot of vulnerable older people, however, the practicalities of putting a policy through like this would need to be carefully considered.
ProCare Nursing are an award-winning health and social care agency
If care packages are going to be subsidised by the existing or future governments ProCare Nursing are here to service every care requirement. We are a health and social care agency that has been around for over 20 years providing high quality care to service users.
We are here to ensure that all service users live a dignified life to the highest level possible. Our top priority is to make sure that vulnerable adults such as elderly citizens are looked after. We train all of our care support workers from our in-house training facility, not only do we train newcomers but also update and re-train all of our existing care support workers with any new training that becomes available.
Training our care workers ensures that we deliver high quality care in the field. Here are photos of a recent training course getting underway at our own training facility.
Contact us to learn about our care packages
We are an award-winning health and social care agency. We have been providing care to both the public and private sector for many years, we know what we are doing, you can have confidence working with an agency who have over 300 employees ready to service all your care requirements. Contact us our details are shown below.
Tel: 029 2025 0611
