Social Care
Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth has urged backbencher Conservative MPs to “learn the lessons of the past two weeks” and rebel against the government in today’s vote on amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill. Ashworth told Sky News Breakfast programme this morning that “Government ministers have not only whacked up tax on working… Read more »
The news that the government’s new social care cap plans could fail to see those with lower assets spend less on social care than before have received sharp criticisms. Torsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, also hit out at the plans, writing via Twitter that: “I’m really not sure the government’s thought this… Read more »
