Cost of living crisis risks turning into 'health emergency'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : As well as leading to more sickness and illness, it has warned this will have a major impact on mental health and wellbeing and in social care.
47% : The worry is that, if households are not safeguarded from unaffordable energy price hikes, it will fall to local NHS and social care services to pick up the pieces, with increased hospital admissions and demand on GP surgeries, A&E departments, ambulances, care homes and other social care services, the confederation has warned.
41% : With the NHS already expecting one of the toughest winters on record - because of the high demand on health services combined with predicted high levels of flu, norovirus and potentially further Covid outbreaks - a failure to restrict energy price hikes will make the situation worse by increasing demand on already pressured health and social care services, the confederation said.

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