Prime Minister announces NHS to get extra £384 million per week after Brexit
The NHS is to get an extra £384 million a week after Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May has said. In a major announcement to mark the 70th anniversary of the
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Ex-health ministers call for more streamlined NHS and free social care at point of need
The NHS could benefit from a “radical simplification” of streamlining and making social care free at the point of need, former Labour and Tory health ministers have suggested. Lord Ara
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Gordon Brown: Independence would leave Scotland facing ‘austerity until doomsday’
Scotland would face “austerity until doomsday” if the country became independent, former prime minister Gordon Brown has said. He issued the warning as he called for politicians north and south
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Institute for Fiscal Studies warns adult social care funding 9% lower than decade ago
Adult social care spending is 9% lower than a decade ago, despite councils pumping extra cash into the system at the expense of other services, a new report has warned.
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Social care system pushing young towards criminal gangs, Commissioner warns
Children are being pushed towards violent street gangs by a social care system that focuses money on a small number of the most serious cases, the Children’s Commissioner for England
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Adass warn funding fragile social care system is ‘undeniable, urgent and imperative’
Adult social care is increasingly fragile and requires more short-term Government funding to tide it over until reform measures are introduced, a report warns. Despite a £2.3 billion boost this
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Hospice boss faces jail for £100,000 fraud using charity’s credit card
A hospice boss whose arrest cost the charity £100,000 in lost donations will be jailed when he is sentenced for a long-running fraud. Graham Leggatt-Chidgey, 62, pleaded guilty to abusing
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Nearly 1.5 million emergency admissions to hospital could have been avoided
Failures across health and social care led to around 1.5 million emergency admissions to hospital that could have been avoided, MPs have said. Nearly a quarter of the urgent admissions
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Report: New research into funding for adult social care published – Dept of Health & Social Care
The Review of Adult Social Care Relative Needs Formulae proposes a new formula to be used with the Local Government Finance Settlement. The Review of Adult Social Care Relative Needs
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NHS decision to stop funding homeopathy treatments upheld by High Court
A decision to pull the plug on NHS funding for homeopathy has been upheld by a High Court judge. The British Homeopathic Association (BHA) brought a legal challenge against NHS
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