New laws designed to integrate health and social care services better to ensure the failures in patient safety exposed in the Mid Staffordshire scandal are not repeated have cleared their
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The NHS in England is launching the first wave of a series of new “vanguard” projects aimed at driving forward more integration between health and social care. Proposals put forward
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Authorities today named the first eight sites where projects will take place to blend health and social care funding for individuals, allowing them to take control of how it is
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The Department of Health has announced the expansion their Integrated Care Pioneers Programme which aims to promote innovative ways of joining up health and social care. The aim is to
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East Lothian Council and NHS Lothian have launched two consultations on the integration of health and social care in the East Lothian. In April 2015, the new East Lothian Health
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The Scottish Government has published guidance to support planned and delivery of health and social care integration in line with the principles they have set out. The Public Bodies (Joint Working)
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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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