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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Analysis9 reasons Johnson’s plans don’t fix social careThe 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 itInvestment 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 moneyPrivate 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 noticingPlans 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 toldAs 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 downfallI 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 NHSIt'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...
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Published in: ourNHSPoliticians are failing our children on a grand scale
The welfare of children should be everybody's business but both health and social care reforms and wider austerity...
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Published in: ourNHSHealth and Social Care Integration: a blueprint for the future?
Both Labour and the Conservatives are keen to integrate social care and health care. But will these proposals put...
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Published in: ourNHSSocial care: from personal budgets to a person-centred policy and practice
Personal budgets have serious implications for the ethos of the NHS which must be considered if health and social...
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Published in: ourNHSPersonal care budgets could further fragment the NHS
Aside from whether patients welcome the cash payments there are wider issues that need addressing, namely whether...
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