Healthcare is fragmenting as a result of changes ministers claim promote 'joined up care', finds a frustrated NHS worker.

Plans to ‘create a local market’ in health and social care, including personal budgets, threaten to undermine our...

Caregiving is neither a male nor female responsibility - it’s what helps to make us all human. It’s time we reshaped...

As Essex council closes the only daycare centre for dementia patients in the South of the county, its councillors...

We've been tweeting our thoughts on Labour's Oldham Commission on 'Whole Person Care', which launches its report...

I have broken the NHS in to digestible bits ripe for being eaten up by private companies, confesses an NHS clinician.

As the Care Bill returns to the Commons next week, the hospital closure clause isn't the only problem with it. The...

Labour's 'big idea' on health is to merge it with social care and maybe even benefits. It calls it 'whole person...

It's the competitive market in social care that has hammered down standards. The NHS must not follow care homes down...

Today, social responses to peoples' needs are being pushed to the margin by the reframing of all tasks in terms of...

If assisted dying is legalised in England and Wales, then society’s neglect of older people, combined with increased...

The welfare of children should be everybody's business but both health and social care reforms and wider austerity...

Both Labour and the Conservatives are keen to integrate social care and health care. But will these proposals put...

Personal budgets have serious implications for the ethos of the NHS which must be considered if health and social...

Aside from whether patients welcome the cash payments there are wider issues that need addressing, namely whether...