There are more people stuck in hospital waiting to be discharged today than when the Government announced its £750 million fund to speed up discharge and free up hospital beds!

Too many people are stuck in hospital and unable to go home because of a staffing crisis and the Government’s failure to prevent them being there in the first place.

The Conservatives’ botched plan ignored the root causes of chronic staff shortages and lack of care in the community, the winter fund didn’t arrive until halfway through winter, and now Rishi Sunak is abandoning their promised social care reforms.

Labour will tackle record vacancies through a new deal for care workers, and fundamentally shift the focus to prevention and early intervention so that more people can be cared for in their own home which is where they want to be