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Uncertain Reactions Concerning Changes to the Social Care Precept (BBC News)

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary While social care budgets are widely claimed to be on a tipping-point of unsustainability, reactions to this week’s announcements have been ambivalent at best. Many commentators talk disparagingly of recent proposals for increases to the social care precept as … Continue reading →

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Concerning the Proposed Commission on the Future of NHS and Social Care (BBC News / House of Commons Library)

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Earlier this year, the former health secretaries / ministers Stephen Dorrell, Alan Milburn and Norman Lamb proposed creating a cross-party commission to review the future of the NHS and social care in England. Both systems are commonly said to … Continue reading →

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