The deadline for comments on proposals to halve the remainder of community hospital beds in Eastern Devon is

TODAY

Please respond.

The email address is: d-ccg.YourFutureCare@nhs.net

Where to start?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38526285

Nuffield Trust reported on Today programme – their spokesman reported on Today there had been a 25% cut in social care funding. Also that there had been significant pressure in some parts of the country, including the West of England.

Bed pressures:
http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/blog/winter-insight-beds-pressures

Now blocked beds in mental health care:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38517648

Urges to stop this being a party political punchbag:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38521473

And yet it still is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38315259

And, to add insult to injury, see where the money goes in social care when you have privatised providers in this article (“Capital letters” – bottom of page) from Private Eye: