Tag Archives: Spending on Local Authority Social Care

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 →

Crisis in Care Homes / Social Care Sustainability? (BBC News / ResPublica)

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Economic analysis of the financial sustainability of residential care home services in England suggests that care homes could – within five years – be underfunded by £1.1 billion per year. This raises worrying implications for future capacity relative to … Continue reading →

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Carers Charged For Support? / Social Care Funding Shortfalls (Carers Trust / BBC News)

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Councils are reported to be increasingly likely to consider charging unpaid carers for the support they receive… despite the valuable role these people themselves play in relieving the pressures of growing demand for local health and care services. Such … Continue reading →

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Radical Review of Health and Social Care Funding (BBC News / Barker Commission / King’s Fund)

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Barker Commission has asserted that the NHS and social care systems in England need to be merged, with a single ring-fenced budget, in the most radical overhaul since their creation in the 1940s. Proposals for new models of … Continue reading →

Proposals For a Single Health and Care System (Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England / The King’s Fund / BBC News)

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The independent Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England has proposed the creation of a single health and social care system; asserting that the current system is not fit for purpose. The Commission’s interim report … Continue reading →

Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England (King’s Fund)

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The King’s Fund has launched a commission to review whether the post-war establishment of separate systems for health and social care remains fit for purpose. The NHS, and proposals for social care, are undergoing significant reform; and this context … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Spending on Local Authority Social Care

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

Crisis in Care Homes / Social Care Sustainability? (BBC News / ResPublica)

Carers Charged For Support? / Social Care Funding Shortfalls (Carers Trust / BBC News)

Radical Review of Health and Social Care Funding (BBC News / Barker Commission / King’s Fund)

Proposals For a Single Health and Care System (Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England / The King’s Fund / BBC News)

Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England (King’s Fund)

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