Plaid Cymru’s shadow health and social care secretary warned that new Wales-wide standards for commissioning care may be unachievable due to financial pressures
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00:00As the responses to the consultation clearly reflect, there remains widespread concern
00:04that the principles and standards outlined in this framework, as worthy as they are,
00:10will be unachievable in practical terms.
00:13On the right to be concerned, without a decisive rejection of austerity and sustained increases
00:19in public spending, local authorities, who will be primarily responsible for implementing
00:25this framework, are hurtling headlong into an existential crisis.