TWO leading healthcare charities have warned MPs in the north to protect their constituents from a parliamentary bill which would see the poorest in their communities crippled by care costs.
Analysts at the Health Foundation and the Kings Fund have today urged leaders in Yorkshire, the Midlands and the North East to vote down the government’s social care cap amendment to the Health and Care Bill which is scheduled to be heard on Monday.
The change means those living in the so-called ‘Red Wall’ Conservative constituencies - which were historically held by Labour and where average wealth tends to be lower - would see the biggest erosion of their protection against high care costs.
