social care
23 Mar 2020
Social Care funding support :COVID-19
The government has announced additional funding for social care as part of the COVID-19 funding package to help “patients who no longer need urgent hospital treatment to return home” Local...
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20 Feb 2020
Health and Social Care Spotlight – February 2020
This newsletter on rural health is provided for the RSN and the Rural Health and Care Alliance It includes a roundup of rural health news, research, learning and best practice. If you...
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10 Feb 2020
Commission puts health devolution back on political agenda
The MJ reported that a new cross-party Health Devolution Commission launched on Monday is calling for the devolution of health and social care service The Commission, which has been backed...
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18 Dec 2019
Health and Social Care Spotlight – December 2019
This newsletter on rural health is provided for the RSN and the Rural Health and Care Alliance It includes a roundup of rural health news, research, learning and best practice. If you...
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02 Dec 2019
Winter pressures increasing for care services
The MJ reports that more than 90 per cent of adult care directors are concerned at their ability to cope with winter pressures or provider failure The Association of Directors...
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18 Nov 2019
Tracking public finance spending commitments
The think tank, Institute for Government and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, publish an annual analysis of the performances of public services The 2019 Performance Tracker finds...
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11 Nov 2019
Councils need billions more for adult care
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has reported that Councils need ‘billions of pounds in additional funding to meet the rising costs of adult social care’, and this is just to...
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29 Oct 2019
Health and Social Care Spotlight – October 2019
This newsletter on rural health is provided for the RSN and the Rural Health and Care Alliance It includes a roundup of rural health news, research, learning and best practice. If you...
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29 Apr 2019
Social Care model suggested
Former cabinet minister Damian Green has today published a report with the think tank Centre of Policy Studies in which he argues that current social care is inadequate, and the...
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11 Mar 2019
Council warns of £1bn social care black hole
Following the announcement that councils will be allowed to raise taxes by 2.99 per cent in 2019/2020, town hall leaders warned of a £1 billion social care funding gap, as...
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