Transforming care in England
One of the challenges identified by the Kings Fund for the NHS in England is developing new and better models of care – they write: The ageing population, changing patterns of disease – with more...
Author: David Alan Cross
Understanding pressures in general practice – The Kings Fund
Increasing demands on general practice over the past five years – not just a heavier workload but the increasing complexity and intensity of work – have led to a feeling of crisis. The NHS is...
How will the new Charities Act affect your Charity?
The Cabinet Office published a timetable today that explains when the different sections of the new Charities Act are going to take effect. Largely these are broken down into three separate phases – July 2016,...
Preparing for changes to the Benefit Cap
From this autumn the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 will see changes to the current benefit cap levels and the introduction of additional exemptions. Claimants who could be affected by the changes to benefit...
Half of low income households at risk of missing out on vital welfare support
New research by the national charity Turn2us has found that almost half (48%) of low income households are not claiming the welfare benefits and tax credits they could be entitled to. This is despite the...
How do the health care systems in the UK compare internationally?
Sarah Gregory Researcher, Policy at The Kings Fund has taken a look at this question Two years ago I wrote about how health systems in other countries were grappling with the problems of how to...
Former chapel to become Wales’ first ‘social supermarket’ offering discounted goods to people on benefits
Chris Kelsey writing for Wales Online: A former chapel is to become Wales’ first ‘social supermarket’ offering cut price goods to people on benefits. Trinity Chapel in Abertillery will be transformed after being rescued by...
Mothers would rather go to A&E than call NHS 111 if child was ill, study finds
Charlie Cooper writing for The Independent: Netnums poll in wake of death of William Mead finds 78% of mothers would bypass 111 service The vast majority of mothers would go straight to A&E rather than...
NHS 111 phone line will undergo ‘fundamental’ reform, Jeremy Hunt promises
He says the service needs to be made simpler and its algorithm changed. Clinicians no longer form the basis for the NHS’s flagship helpline service Jon Stone for The Independent 26/01/2016: The NHS 111 phone line service will...
Care homes’ charging pensioners’ families for care that should be free
A charity has called for top-up fees to be ‘optional, affordable and transparent’, after finding many families are subsidising the cost of their relative’s care home when it should be free. Families can choose to...