Archive: Social Care

Lansley faces wrath of the nurses

Andrew Lansley versus the nurses: There can only be one winner...

Health secretary Andrew Lansley is to address angry nurses frustrated by cutbacks to community care later this morning.

Miliband urges on nurses against NHS reforms

Better safe than sorry? Care applications still rising after Baby P

Lansley faces questions over civil servants' tax avoidance

'Misery and fear' for elderly and disabled without reform

Elderly left 'helpless' in current care system

Britain's struggling social care system needs urgent change to save elderly and disabled people from a "vicious circle", campaigners say.

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Cameron speech on dementia in full

David Cameron: 'This is simply a terrible disease and it is a scandal that we as a country haven’t kept pace with it'

Read David Cameron's speech on dementia in full on politics.co.uk

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Better safe than sorry? Care applications still rising after Baby P

17-month-old Peter Connelly's tragic death continues to overshadow care workers

Social workers are putting more and more children in care in the wake of the Baby P case, figures out today show.

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UK's old age miseries revealed

Human rights infringements are probably worse than already established

Serious widespread failings in home care for older people are emerging, as MPs prepare to clash over plans to raise the retirement age.

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NHS: Dr Collins has our full support

Ruth Carnall, chief executive of NHS London, defends Great Ormond Street's record:

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Great Ormond Street: We did not mislead inquiry

Great Ormond Street Hospital have refuted allegations that they mislead the inquiry into Baby P's death:

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Lib Dem MP: Great Ormond Street boss should go

Lynne Featherstone, Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, calls for Great Ormond Street Hospital's (GOSH) boss to step down:

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NHS horror stories revealed

Patients Association worried about elderly care in NHS

Firsthand accounts of elderly patients' terrible treatment have been published by the Patients' Association (PA).

'Wake-up call' for elderly care

Large proportions of elderly patients weren't receiving good care, the report concluded

Only one-third of elderly patients are receiving good treatment in hospital, a report has claimed.

Tories accused of death tax U-turn

The Conservatives stand accused of abandoning their outright opposition to Labour's 'death tax' proposals for funding social care.

MPs fed up with social care 'point-scoring'

Baby-boomers will need huge social care investment

MPs have called on the major parties to avoid "pre-election point-scoring" and come together to achieve consensus on social care reform.

No respite for carers

Less than a quarter of government funding aimed at giving carers a break to go on holiday has been used in this way, new figures have shown.

Lib Dems offer carer 'holidays'

Clegg wants break for hardest-working unpaid carers

Nick Clegg wants to reallocate spending contained in the personal care at home bill to provide a week's holiday for the country's hardest-working carers.

Councils 'face elderly challenge'

Elderly care needs innovation, Audit Commission says

Local authorities are likely to struggle with the rising costs of looking after elderly people if they do not innovate to achieve savings, the Audit Commission has warned.

Burnham raises home care stakes

Dialysis at home could improve the lives of 7,000 people

The NHS should not be afraid of transforming services from hospital to the home, health secretary Andy Burnham will say later.

Acrimony sours elderly care debate

Consensus elusive for elderly care reforms

Prospects for cross-party talks on reforming elderly care in England and Wales diminished over the weekend as the media glare hardened negotiating positions.

Mandy attacks Cameron's death tax 'wrecking ball'

Tory poster attacking death tax followed cross-party talks

Peter Mandelson has intervened in the 'death tax' debate by calling David Cameron's alleged decision to cut off cross-party talks "contemptible".

Brown dodges 'death tax' claims

From the latest Conservative poster attacking Brown's 'death tax'

Gordon Brown avoided ruling out a compulsory inheritance tax levy to help fund his social care plans, amid intense criticism of his proposals.

Councillors unimpressed by Brown's care plan

Brown's care plan savaged by councillors

An alliance of councillors from across the country has attacked Gordon Brown's plans to expand care for the elderly.

Brown's 'death tax' denied

'Death tax' proposal could help pay for expanded social care

Plans to impose a £20,000 inheritance tax to help finance improved social care provision have been denied by the government.

Analysis: 'Death tax' and the perils of spin

Andrew Lansley warns against 'death tax' - a little too late

The 24-hour news cycle often serves as an advantage. But it can quickly become a curse.

Peers defeat social care challenge

Free social care for around 250,000 was a key part of Gordon Brown's 2009 conference speech

A former health minister's attempt to derail the government's proposals for free social care failed in the Lords last night, as consensus over the policy remains elusive.