A senior Tory MP has urged Theresa May’s Government to quickly resolve social care funding, telling ministers: “Just get on and do it.” Sir Nicholas Soames questioned why a “sane
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A levy on workers of around £360 a year would help tackle the social care funding crisis, a public services think tank has suggested. Under the plans set out by
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People with motor neurone disease (MND) have to shell out almost £10,000 because of costs associated with the disease. A new cost analysis from the think tank Demos showed that
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The King’s Fund, Comic Relief, and the Big Lottery Fund have opened the application process for a unique support programme enabling charity leaders to help each other through sharing expertise
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Wales Health Secretary Vaughan Gething has announced £850,000 to build a Maggie’s Centre on the site of the Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff. Maggie’s Centres are based in the grounds
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Reform of social care must not be “swept under the carpet” campaigners have warned, as ministers promised to consult on the way the system is funded. Downing Street insisted Theresa
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The competition watchdog is investigating concerns that some care homes for the elderly could be breaking consumer law, it has announced. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had
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Parts of the Tory manifesto will be “pruned away” as Theresa May prepares for a showdown with Conservative MPs amid anger over the way the party saw its majority wiped
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Leaders from the public, private and voluntary sectors are being invited to Liverpool Hope University this June to debate the future of social care. The debate ‘The Crisis in Social Care. Who cares? Who pays?’
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The British Red Cross has launched a new UK Solidarity Fund to help victims of terrorism anywhere in Britain. The UK-wide fund will support people who have been injured, bereaved
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