NHS trusts are expected to have seen a shortfall of as much as £750 million in the last financial year, a health chief has said. Chris Hopson, chief executive of
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The National Autistic Society is encouraging autistic people across the UK, and their families, to talk to their local general election candidates about autism, by holding candidate coffee mornings. The
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Tory plans to shake-up funding for social care could see nine out of 10 English homes eligible to be put on the market to cover treatment costs, the Liberal Democrats
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Conservative plans for councils to recoup the care costs of elderly people from their estates after they die may flounder due to poor-performing local authorities, a former pensions minister has
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Theresa May has made a dramatic U-turn on her manifesto policy on social care amid signs that controversy over a so-called “dementia tax” was hurting Conservatives in the polls. Just
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The Tories pose a “shambolic threat” to the income of pensioners, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has said. Ms Dugdale attacked Prime Minister Theresa May for a “chaotic” and “humiliating”
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Theresa May’s manifesto showed the Tories had returned to being the “nasty party”, Labour said as it warned 10 million pensioners would lose their winter fuel payments under her plans.
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Wealthy pensioners will lose up to £300 in winter fuel payments and more elderly people could be forced to pay to be looked after in their own homes under Theresa
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Conservative plans for social care have come under fire from the author of a major review of the issue, who warned elderly people would be left “helpless” to control the
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Conservative plans for social care have been branded a “missed opportunity” to solve the existing crisis facing older people, with a charity boss saying a solution seems as far away
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