The social care sector welcomes the publication of the government’s 10 Year Health Plan for the health and care system, shaped in part by the ideas, concerns and lived experience of social cae colleagues. They have unique insights into community-based care and how it can help ease pressure on an overstretched system.
Catering for the health and care needs of our growing and aging population is a national priority, explains Kristian Hibberd, Communications Manager, Local Government Association. Reforming our care and support system is vital for us to be able to meet …
All too often, it's the negative issues around adult social care which attract the headlines, obscuring the fact that the care sector is a vibrant and rewarding place to work. Care workers and their employers should be rightly proud of …
Care and Support Minister, Norman Lamb, and Director General of the Association of British Insurers, Otto Thoresen, have signed a joint ‘statement of intent’ committing to work together to improve access to financial information and promote a wider choice of …
The Department of Health opened up a public consultation last spring to seek people’s views on new topics for the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to produce social care quality guidance and standards on from 2015 onwards. …
Today, Norman Lamb, Minister for Care and Support and Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister launched a new set of measures to do more to help the one in four people who will suffer from a mental health problem at some …
West Midlands promotes new health, care and wellbeing web platform In the West Midlands, as part of our approach to integration in the region we are launching a web platform which brings together people and intelligence across the health, care …
The Better Care Fund will provide £3.8 billion to local services to give elderly and vulnerable an improved health and social system - and now it's your chance to get involved. The Fund exists to generate real momentum in the …
Suicide. It is unquestionably one of the most heartbreaking and traumatic subjects to tackle from a health and care perspective, but tackle it we must. Today, the Department of Health has published its first annual report on England’s cross-government suicide …
Integrating health, housing and wellbeing - central London conference to address issue in March An important all-day conference is to be held in central London on 5 March 2014 organised jointly by Public Health England, Department of Health and PlaceShapers, a network …
For those of us working in - or receiving services from - the care sector, it’s important we all know about any financial support available. Our colleagues at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) tell us that one in …