Councils and the NHS should be sharing data more effectively to better predict which residents are most likely to need “intensive social care” according to health think-tank the Nuffield Trust.

Thousands of workers at Nottinghamshire County Council will stage a 24-hour strike on Thursday in protest at “savage” spending cuts and the threat of 1,000 job losses.

A LONG-RUNNING pensioners’ day care service has been axed after Walsall Council pulled the plug on its funding, claiming it was not value for money.

More than 50,000 posts are to be shed across the NHS, including doctors, nurses and midwives, as managers hunt for efficiency savings, trade union leaders warned last night.

Homeless people admitted to A&E are often twice as sick as the general public and cost eight times as much to treat. Has one hospital found the solution?

NOTTS will lose 70 intermediate care beds when county council care homes are sold. The council is set to sell-off its 12 care homes by September, and the new owners will not be expected to provide the intermediate care beds.

Axe-threatened Leeds Crisis Centre has won a stay of execution after councillors “called in” a controversial decision to close it.

Southwark council has approved nearly £34 million cuts that could see 10 day centres close.

Personal details of vulnerable adults were saved on a memory stick which was lost by a council worker, a watchdog said today.

Older people self-funding their care in care homes do not receive the same support and help as those funded by the State.