Leaders from a number of end-of-life charities have joined forces to demand a new funding model for palliative care from the next government to ensure the sector is able to
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A Labour government would be determined to “make social care work”, the shadow minister has pledged but said he cannot put a figure on how much investment there would be
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The Conservatives have not yet delivered on many of their 2019 manifesto pledges on health and social care, according to new analysis. The King’s Fund said that the Government’s progress
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A new report from MPs has warned that the Department of Health and Social Care is failing to provide the leadership required to deliver a social care sector sufficient to
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The funding pot for the NHS in England is set to “decrease” in the next financial year, leading health commentators have warned. The Health Foundation said the budget for the
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More than half of the money the Government pledged to fund brain cancer research in honour of Dame Tessa Jowell is yet to be “deployed”, a charity has said. Dame
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The next government has been urged to make social care a priority after years of reform being “consistently dodged or delayed”, a thinktank has said. In its annual Social Care
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Ministers have been urged to give assurances over the future of the delayed cap on social care costs, amid a “cloud of anxiety” worrying families. Conservative MP Tom Hunt said
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Councils have warned frontline neighbourhood services will still have to be cut despite the Government recently providing emergency funding, as doubts over the viability of local authorities continue. If further
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The Tory Government at Westminster is “hell-bent on returning to a new age of austerity”, Scotland’s Finance Secretary has warned. Shona Robison, who is also the Scottish Deputy First Minister,
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