David Oliver is an experienced NHS consultant physician and medical writer from Manchester. Now working in the South East, he has looked after Covid wards and patients for many months over the past two years. He also writes a weekly column in the British Medical Journal.
Here he shares his perspective with the Manchester Evening News on the crisis in social care - a sector which has faced years of chronic underfunding and staffing shortages - and why it poses a problem for all of us.
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