NHS leaders have written to new Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock urging him to “grasp the social care challenge”. The letter calls for a joint plan that covers
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A major new report highlighting how social care has become a postcode lottery for children across the UK has been published following research conducted by the University of Sheffield. The
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A University of Stirling academic has been called upon to help the World Health Organisation (WHO) promote personalised care for older people in the Middle East and North Africa. Professor
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Ministers have been accused of complacency by MPs in the face of a looming cash crisis for local councils in England. The Commons Public Accounts Committee warned authorities were facing
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The integration of health and social care requires “serious political leadership”, the head of the spending watchdog has said. Sir Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office (NAO), urged
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Scotland’s new Health Secretary has said she wants to increase the speed at which health and social care services are being brought together. Jeane Freeman (pictured) insisted efforts to make
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A Tory former minister has called on the Government to make social care “free at the point of use”. Mark Prisk told MPs that with health and social care being
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Health and social care organisations are prioritising individual performance over patients, the health watchdog has warned. Local leaders should be incentivised to work together and judged on how well the
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The Government has announced a £215 million package of funding for research into transforming the lives of millions of people living with a range of conditions, including life-long illnesses, mental
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Nearly all of England’s council leaders believe there is a major funding crisis in social care and want national taxes ploughed into sorting it out, according to a study. More
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