A total of 15,487 residential care and nursing homes are registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and have around 410 000 residents. Almost half of newly admitted residents come from hospitals. With the UK […]
Social care in this country is broken. 26% fewer people are supported in 2020 than in 2010, and local authority spending on social care has fallen by 49% in real terms despite soaring population and […]
Sunday 5th July marks the NHS 72nd anniversary. We want to celebrate it, but also demand better care is taken of it, as the last ten years of Government policy have seen it woefully unprepared […]
Is the winter crisis a new phenomenon? A winter crisis in the NHS may not be an entirely new phenomenon, but the severity of it is. 2012-13 saw the first reports of a winter crisis, […]
The Department of Health and Social Care will not ringfence £240m social care funding, nor guarantee mass surgical cancellations will not happen again this winter. At a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts yesterday […]
oveoveeNational KONP and NHS News Scrap ICPs & Support the NHS Bill: Rally & Petition at Parliament & DoH Thank you to the over a hundred supporters who turned out on Friday 26 October to […]
Chancellor Philip Hammond’s latest budget on 29 October was predictably disappointing for our NHS, with no new funding promised. Despite claims from Hammond that the NHS was, ‘A precious institution that [had] been nurtured for most […]
We are all quite rightly concerned about the increasing privatisation and fragmentation of the NHS in England happening under our noses. It is an affront to a publicly funded system that private companies may swoop […]
On Saturday 17th of November Health Campaigns Together will stage their Reclaim Social Care Conference in Birmingham. This will be an essential event in response to the ongoing and undeniable crisis in social care. Attending this event is […]
The Reclaim Social Care Conference in Birmingham on Saturday 17 November, called by our friends from Health Campaigns Together is an essential event in response to the ongoing crisis in social care. RECLAIM SOCIAL CARE CONFERENCE 11:00am […]
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