A new, £20m-a-year Welsh Government fund will support people in their own homes and local communities, reducing pressure on hospitals, Health and Social Services Minister Mark Drakeford has announced. The
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More than half a million pounds worth of funding has been awarded to Age Scotland to raise awareness of dementia and promote early intervention among older people in Scotland. Funding
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The Welsh Government will provide £3m towards the cost of a £5m, 15 bed, specialist in-patient hospice, which will be built next to the main hospice building at Blackett Avenue
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Labour’s manifesto confirmed the party’s pledge of a £2.5 billion “time to care” fund to boost spending on health, but did not match Conservative and Liberal Democrat promises to meet
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The amount of money spent on research into dementia and stroke in the UK is still far too low, health experts have said. Analysis of funding for research into the
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Research into mental health receives less than 1% of the funding per patient that cancer gets, analysis by a charity has found. For every £1 spent by the Government on
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22 new projects across Scotland will share a slice of £400,000 funding from the Self Management IMPACT Fund to support new ways of working. This investment from the Self
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Major changes to the social care system which come into place in England today are “built on sand” unless more funding is allocated, charities have warned. The Care and Support
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An extra £2.25 billion will be pumped into mental health services in England by 2020 under the Liberal Democrats to tackle “shocking indifference” to the issue, Nick Clegg said. The
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Three quarters of MPs agree that adult social care funding from government should be protected in a similar way to the NHS for the next five years, according to a
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