Last week the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, set out his commitment to reform adult social care and deliver a National Care Service.
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 …
The desire to protect the vulnerable and to ensure distressed ill people are treated humanely and above all safely has motivated all of us working in - or with - the care and support sector to do more. The Department …
In the modern era of media saturation and information overload, there is a growing need for initiatives and tools which can aggregate and sort data into user friendly formats, allowing us to assess, plan, develop and monitor health and care …