Speaking from the party’s Brighton conference, the leader of the Liberal Democrats expressed his concern that the government is “talking about reform before investment”.
financing without making any reforms while presenting a ten-year plan for improving the health service.
Sir Ed stated, “I don’t think the NHS can withstand that approach,” on Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips on News.
“It needs the investment up front as well as reform.”
He claimed that “Labour doesn’t seem to be grasping” social care reform and that the Conservatives had “reneged” on it.
The Liberal Democrats have presented themselves as the group that can improve the NHS and social care.
About a million seniors, handicapped people, and retirees, according to Sir Ed, would be “getting care right now” if the Conservatives had kept the 2014 Care Act, which was enacted when they were in partnership with the Liberal Democrats.
Many of the Dilnot Commission’s suggestions on how to implement an equitable, cost-effective, and long-lasting system of funding for social care were made law by the act.
The past Conservative government, according to Sir Ed, was wasting “a lot of the money” in the wrong areas.
He said that one of the key factors contributing to his party’s election-day surge was the Liberal Democrats’ policies regarding the NHS and social care.
