Liberal Democrat pledges on health and care are ambitious and brave but the sums to make them happen “simply don’t add up”, a health think tank has said. The party,
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The Liberal Democrats set out a goal of taking the UK back into the European Union single market and hiking taxes by almost £27 billion to fund major investments in
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The Green Party is proposing to deliver a “game-changing” £50 billion plan for health and social care by 2030. The package, which would be provided over the next five years,
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Day-to-day care for adults in need, including the elderly and disabled, would be free under a Liberal Democrat government, the party has pledged. Leader Sir Ed Davey described the issue
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Labour has “no plans” to change rules stopping foreign healthcare workers bringing their dependants with them to the UK, Wes Streeting has said. Speaking to reporters at a campaign stop
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Election candidates must not get away with “weasel words or vague promises” on social care, a providers group has warned. Those knocking on doors asking for votes in the General
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Wealthy people should not expect the state to pay for all their social care needs, Theresa May has said. At a lunch for Westminster journalists, the former prime minister criticised
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Plans to expand the number of places that patients will be able to get care out of hospital have been hailed as the “largest expansion of choice in the NHS
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As a part of their #KeepTheRightPeople campaign, Jayne McCabe, Skills for Care Project Manager, discusses how a good induction supports social care providers to retain staff and the launch of
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Care home staff felt “second best” during the Covid-19 pandemic compared to NHS workers who were prioritised for PPE and benefitted from special shopping hours, an inquiry has heard. Duncan
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