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Disabled woman in High Court challenge over Government ‘failure’ to set up care appeal system

By Brian Farmer, Reporter25th October 2022News England

A disabled woman is embroiled in a High Court fight with the Department of Health and Social Care over a “failure” to set up an appeals system in relation to

Care sector ‘must recruit equivalent of population of Newcastle’ as CQC warn of service gridlock

By Jemma Crew, Reporter21st October 2022News England

Health and care leaders need to recruit the equivalent of the population of Newcastle, the care regulator said, as it warned of a gridlock that is paralysing services and risking

Council to refund 11 years of care home fees family should never have been charged

By Iain MacDonald, Reporter20th October 2022News England

Birmingham City Council will repay a city family more than 11 years of care home fees after the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found the family should never have

Council agrees to review processes after visually impaired woman was left without social care

By Iain MacDonald, Reporter20th October 2022News England

Leicestershire County Council has agreed to improve how it prepares social care and support plans after a severely visually impaired woman was left without the day-to-day support she needed for

Little evidence that social prescribing link workers easing burden on GP services, study concludes

By Ella Pickover, Reporter18th October 2022News England

There is little evidence that so-called “social prescribing link workers” improve social support or ease the burden on overstretched GP services, a new review has concluded. The new analysis, published

‘Absolutely essential’ Liz Truss follows through on promised social care reforms – Andrew Dilnot

By Jemma Crew, Reporter13th October 2022News England

The Prime Minister has been warned not to row back on key social care reforms as this would be to “abandon some of the most vulnerable people in our society”.

Cost of providing council social care ‘an increasingly common theme’ in complaints to ombudsman

By Jemma Crew, Reporter12th October 2022News England

More complaints are being made about councils failing to provide social care – or limiting the care provided – and using cost as a justification, an ombudsman has said. The

NHS England looking at plans to speed up discharge of medically fit patients

By Jane Kirby, Reporter12th October 2022News England

NHS England is looking at new plans to speed up the discharge of people stuck in hospital beds who are medically fit to leave. Hospitals are under increasing pressure due

Fifth of residential care workers already in poverty before cost-of-living crisis escalates

By Jemma Crew, Reporter11th October 2022News England

One in five residential care workers in the UK were living in poverty before the cost-of-living crisis, new analysis suggests. Care home and assisted living staff are far more likely

England’s hospitals within hours of running out of some PPE items – Matt Hancock

Minister admits ‘unacceptable’ rise in children subject to Deprivation of Liberty orders

Warning of ‘stark failure’ in social care after children placed in caravan and Airbnb