'Around 1.20 million British elderly people are treated as “parcels” passed around a disorganized healthcare system that is dealing with harsh spending cuts, MPs have warned.

A committee of MPs reported that vulnerable patients in Britain faced diminished quality of life due to “salami slicing of health care services and a failure to integrate health and social care." They also warned that if the government failed to plan to reform the system, there would be "serious consequences for standards."'

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