Health boards and social care providers will be given a funding boost of £1.1 billion to support their battle against Covid-19, the Health Secretary has announced. The Scottish Government confirmed
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An independent body should be created to oversee and regulate the social care market to prevent “unfair outcomes”, according to a think tank. New regulations are needed to ensure older
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Labour is calling on Boris Johnson to make good on his promise to “fix” the crisis in adult social care in England. Deputy leader Angela Rayner said that despite entering
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The Government’s long-awaited social care plan looks set to be delayed until next year, peers have been told. Health and social care minister Lord Bethell said he could not commit
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Social care in England must be urgently reformed after the Covid-19 pandemic coupled with a chronic lack of investment “threatened to break an already fragile system”, a doctors’ union has
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A series of “injustices” are embedded in the current social care system but long-term funding and reform plans have been delayed by coronavirus, the Health Secretary has said. Matt Hancock
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Councils must have more powers over tax, an organisation representing local authorities in Scotland has said. The demand is one of several in a new Blueprint for Local Government document
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The Government is being urged to invest in the “badly underfunded” social care system after new research suggested annual spending was hundreds of millions of pounds lower than a decade
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The social care system should be reformed so individuals pay for what they want while the state covers what they need, a new report says. The centre-right Centre for Policy
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NHS trusts across England will receive £300 million to upgrade facilities ahead of the winter amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus, Boris Johnson has announced. The Prime Minister
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