social care Articles

The Tories burying their heads in the sand over the winter crisis in our NHS is very troubling, writes deputy leader of Bolton council Linda Thomas Our jewel in the crown, our precious National Health Service, is in intensive care with a terminal prognosis, so the...

Labour in local government is innovating to compensate for lack of government funding, writes Paul Brant This winter the health and social care system is under unprecedented pressure, and parts of it are buckling. This was entirely predictable with an aging...

Unless the government provides the NHS with emergency funding, its winter crisis will become terminal, argues Martin Edobor Over the last few days, our National Health Service has been tested to its limits, as the winter crisis has become a national emergency....

The social care precept is not the long term solution to bridging funding gaps in social care, writes leader of Bury council Rishi Shori The current system of funding for social care in England is broken. There is nothing particularly surprising in that statement. A...