A Government plan to integrate health and social care is failing to save money or stem the rise in hospital admissions, a report has warned. The National Audit Office (NAO)
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Older people have benefited from a pilot project which saw Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) physiotherapy students provide care at home. The project was delivered in partnership with Carers Direct, NHS
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A £107 million Scottish Government funding boost for health and social care services will cut bed blocking, Nicola Sturgeon has said. The First Minister said Scotland’s integrated health and social
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Chairs of three influential House of Commons committees have issued a plea for Theresa May to call a cross-party review of the health and social care systems. In a letter
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Nearly 700 patients died while waiting to be discharged from Scotland’s hospitals over a 19-month period, figures obtained by Labour have revealed. Health boards said 683 people died in hospital
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The “fragmented” nature of health and social care services can cause problems for patients with providers sometimes arguing over who has responsibility for giving care, watchdogs have found. The division
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From lay input in research to how a clinic runs, from medical revalidation to patient forums, healthcare professionals increasingly need effective patient input if they are to provide a relevant,
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One of the key points made in the recently published ADCS report, Pillars & Foundations: Next practice in children’s services, was a call for the sector to become much more
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Inadequate social care funding is leading to delays in hospital operations, a leading surgeon has warned. Delaying transferring patients from hospitals to social care means that there are not enough
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The Government should provide tax breaks to encourage people to save to pay for the costs of social care, a former pensions minister has said. Baroness Altmann (pictured), who was
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