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Cruella De HELL-UK Chancellor DESTROYS GPs/Care Homes/SMALL Businesses & Pensioners Allowances
GPs/Care Homes/SMALL Businesses Fear National Insurance Rise
Chancellor Rachel Reeves Doesnt CARE If You Don't Like Her Budget
BBC 2 NOV 2024
BRUTAL and SAVAGE - UKs HARD AS NAILS chancellor raises taxes by ?40 billion in first Budget
GPs, care homes and hospices have voiced concerns about the impact of the rise in employer National Insurance contributions announced in the Budget.
The NHS and rest of the public sector are exempt from the tax rise - but that does not cover private care homes or hospices which provide NHS services.
There is also confusion over the impact on GPs, many of which are run as small businesses.
The Department for Health and Social Care said further details for GPs will be confirmed in due course - but a Treasury minister told the BBC they will have to pay the tax hike.
Dr David Wrigley, a GP and deputy chair at the British Medical Association, said the impact of the tax rise would be "monumental".
Doctors will have to lay off nurses and staff causing longer delays for patients to see doctors for treatment
He said on X that many were "already on a financial tight rope" and called for a "rapid announcement of full reimbursement".
Paul Stanley, a manager at a small GP surgery in Northumberland, said a practice of his size would see a bill of more than ?40,000 a year after the tax increase.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the "unfunded increase" in staffing costs could "ultimately impact on our resources and staffing levels".
Shropshire GP Dr Jess Harvey echoed Mr Stanley's concerns.
"Unless we're being given suitable remuneration to cover this National Insurance inflation, we're going to really struggle," she said.
"If we don't get enough money to continue to run these practices, then we're not going to be able to provide the service that people need."
Mike Padgham, chair of the Independent Care Group, which represents social care providers, said the sector had been "left out in the cold".
"We now employ collectively, more than the NHS - 1.7 million people. So those extra charges are going to hit charities and private sector providers alike when we've been squeezed by local authorities who are themselves short of cash.
"So if we pay more, we'll have to charge more."
Geoff Butcher, the owner of a company which runs six care homes, said the tax increase will cost ?200,000 a year, representing 50% of his firm's free cash.
He told the Today programme he fears he will "almost certainly" have to pause planned renovations in light of the increased contributions.
"I think it will exacerbate the speed of closure of homes," he said.
Hospices UK said those providing NHS services should be treated the same as NHS bodies.
CANCER patients & pensioners will suffer most, She doesnt care.
"Paying brilliant, compassionate hospice staff a fair salary makes up the biggest proportion of running costs, and so it's disappointing the chancellor didn't exempt charities, or providers of NHS services which aren't formally part of the NHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3SxKMLdIxs
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