Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has announced plans to head off the social care crisis, including an additional £10bn and a pledge to cap care costs.
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There remain serious shortages in health and social care nursing despite strong mid-year growth, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has said.
More than 2,500 people have been needlessly held in hospital every day since the last General Election because of inadequate social care, Age UK has found.
The UK care home market’s increasing reliance on the private pay market has been revealed by LaingBuisson.
The majority of social care professionals are up and checking their emails at 6am with over half getting six hours sleep a night, new research has revealed.
Three elderly people are dying every hour awaiting care, according to new research by Age UK.
Politicians must work collaboratively in order to secure progress on issues like social care and to restore trust between citizens and the institutions that serve them, a think tank has urged.
The cost of social care for people with dementia will nearly treble over the next two decades, it has been claimed.
Radical reforms, including free personal care, ethical commissioning, enforced standards and good pay for care staff have been proposed by the IPPR thinktank.
The Institute of Fiscal Studies has warned that local councils will need billions of pounds in additional funding to meet the rising costs of adult social care.
