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...
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...
Britain urgently needs a new political consensus on paying for elderly and social care, and the funding debate should consider the value of pensions and homes, the boss of the NHS has said. Denis Campbell...
Care chiefs’ message to Osborne: we fear a wave of homes closing down John Bingham writing in The Telegraph: Health and social care chiefs are demanding a crisis meeting with George Osborne and Jeremy Hunt to...
Melanie Newman and Oliver Wright writing in The Independent (03/08/2015) – The lives of vulnerable care home residents were put at risk because the country’s healthcare regulators failed to act promptly on official warnings about...
Pensioners struggling without help from family, neighbours or state. Further cuts to care budgets will hit ageing population. Charlie Cooper writes in The Independent regarding the country’s leading charity representing older people stating there is...
NHS reforms see Cornwall emulate Manchester with a £2bn deal. Charlie Cooper writes in The Independent – Cornwall is set to win its own “NHS devolution” deal, which could see the county take control of...
Manchester’s plans for developed healrth and social care have been hailed as a blueprint that could rescue the NHS from its cash crisis. Under the proposals for devolved powers announced last month, Greater Manchester will...
The NHS confirmed that 190,000 more people attended A&E this winter compared with last winter, with 51,000 more admitted into hospital as an emergency case. Attendances spiked in December, but the pressure on hospitals was...
Care of the elderly is in a state of “calamitous, quite rapid decline”, a leading charity boss has warned, with hundreds of thousands fewer people receiving care than five years ago. More than £1bn has...
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