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Published in: Home: Feature‘We just got left’: How children of prisoners are abandoned by the state
The government has no statutory duty to identify or support children whose parents are in prison. Why not?
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Published in: Home: NewsFive political decisions that drove the NHS to the brink
NHS wait lists are bursting at the seams. From austerity to privatising social care, this is how we got here
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Published in: Home: News87,000 people can’t keep up with care bills as cost of living soars
Exclusive: 1 in 4 ‘chargeable’ care users sent reminders or warnings, and hundreds referred to debt collectors
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsExclusive: Health and social care levy will cost NHS and care workers £390m
openDemocracy analysis finds National Insurance hike will force health and care staff in England to pay millions for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Analysis9 reasons Johnson’s plans don’t fix social care
The quality of care will still be relative to a person’s ability to pay for it
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisJoe Biden is fixing social care whilst Boris Johnson won’t even talk about it
Investment in social infrastructure makes sound economic sense – but Downing Street would rather leave women to pick...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisThis should be the social care election – why is it being treated as anything but?
Some 30,000 died of COVID in England’s care homes. Yet with few understanding councils and the care system, social...
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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationSocial care at home – the forgotten emergency?
Disabled people have seen their support cut or frozen as councils have used legal loopholes created by emergency...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionCare homes need the industry leaks to be plugged, not just more money
Private care home giants currently funnel large sums away from front line care and towards profits, directors fees,...
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Published in: ourNHSDear patient - why your care is getting shattered, not more 'joined up'
Healthcare is fragmenting as a result of changes ministers claim promote 'joined up care', finds a frustrated NHS worker.
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Published in: ourNHSHow to commercialise and cut health and social care without anyone noticing
Plans to ‘create a local market’ in health and social care, including personal budgets, threaten to undermine our...
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Published in: TransformationWhy don’t men care?
Caregiving is neither a male nor female responsibility - it’s what helps to make us all human. It’s time we reshaped...
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Published in: ourNHSTreat your own dementia, Essex patients told
As Essex council closes the only daycare centre for dementia patients in the South of the county, its councillors...
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Published in: ourNHSLabour's new health ideas - will they rescue NHS from 'organisational dementia'?
We've been tweeting our thoughts on Labour's Oldham Commission on 'Whole Person Care', which launches its report...
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Published in: ourNHSThe NHS - my part in its downfall
I have broken the NHS in to digestible bits ripe for being eaten up by private companies, confesses an NHS clinician.
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Published in: ourNHSSocial care in the community - the fight for independent living
As the Care Bill returns to the Commons next week, the hospital closure clause isn't the only problem with it. The...
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Published in: ourNHSTomorrow's world - Labour's big NHS idea?
Labour's 'big idea' on health is to merge it with social care and maybe even benefits. It calls it 'whole person...
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Published in: ourNHSWho cares? Market forces, social care and the NHS
It's the competitive market in social care that has hammered down standards. The NHS must not follow care homes down...
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Published in: TransformationA relational society - The Kilburn Manifesto
Today, social responses to peoples' needs are being pushed to the margin by the reframing of all tasks in terms of...
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Published in: Shine A LightAssisted dying, poverty and cuts is a bad combination
If assisted dying is legalised in England and Wales, then society’s neglect of older people, combined with increased...