A new conference discussing health and social care integration has been scheduled for Thursday, 30th April 2015, in Edinburgh. Delegates at ‘Priorities for integrated health and social care in Scotland’
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Carers will be given better support if Labour wins next year with funding for breaks and annual health checks, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has revealed. In a key note
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Huge social, demographic and technological changes have taken place since the NHS and social care systems were established in 1948. People are living longer, often with multiple long-term conditions, while
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It is estimated that the NHS faces a shortfall of at least £30 billion a year within a decade and possibly a deficit as high as £50 billion. Martin Stevens
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A £3.8 billion project to pull together health and social care services has been delayed because Whitehall mandarins have said the plans are not credible enough, it has emerged. The
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The government has dismissed widespread reports that the introduction of the Better Care Fund will be delayed. Many media outlets had reported this morning that the £3.8bn-a-year fund, which will
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Health Minister Edwin Poots has laid out his vision for health and social care in Northern Ireland at a seminar in Belfast. The Minister said that from the beginning of
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Additional resources will probably be required as a result of plans to link health and social care, doctors’ leaders have warned. Dr Brian Keighley, chairman of the British Medical Association
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Since the inception of the NHS, an ever-present challenge has been to improve integration of care within the health care system and with social care. Many people have complex and
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This document is based on a report prepared for ADSW at the time of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Bill (Petch, 2013) and seeks to distill key evidence to
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