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HEALTH

'Use pause' to review care funding options

By Jonathan Werran | 25 May 2011

Adult social services directors have urged ministers to use the current pause in reviewing the He...

HEALTH

All on board for wellbeing move

25 May 2011

Councillors, doctors and care officials came together last week for Surrey’s shadow health and we...

HEALTH

Monumental challenge of savings is 'do-able'

By Jonathan Werran | 25 May 2011

Stephen Dorrell, chair of the health select committee, believes year-on-year efficiencies of 4% f...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Survey sparks warnings over social care charges

By Jamie Hailstone | 20 May 2011

Age UK has called on councils to protect social care budgets after figures showed almost 90% of l...

HEALTH

Troubles at Southern Cross 'expose outsourcing dangers'

18 May 2011

Veteran Labour MP, Michael Meacher, has warned that the possible collapse of the Southern Cross H...

HEALTH

London members furious with NHS bosses over cuts

18 May 2011

Barking and Dagenham councillors are ‘furious’ with NHS chiefs for refusing to publish details of...

HEALTH

CPC launches online tooklit to tackle inequality

18 May 2011

The Centre for Public Scrutiny has launched an online toolkit, helping councils tackle local heal...

HEALTH

Cameron restates case for NHS reforms

By Jonathan Werran | 17 May 2011

David Cameron will today restate the coalition’s case for NHS reforms, claiming resistance to cha...

HEALTH

One year on – the Prime Minister (at last) makes a case for change

17 May 2011

Cameron may have made the case for change, but Paul Corrigan is left wondering what he is proposi...

HEALTH

Care experts welcome wellbeing board plans

By Jamie Hailstone | 13 May 2011

Social care expert Richard Humphries has hailed health and wellbeing boards as ‘part of the solut...

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