Category Archives: Care Funding

Bold NHS Chief Executive ?

Posted on May 13, 2018 by

The Government is shortly supposed to be coming up with a Green Paper on Social Care.  The aim of the paper is to resolve the current and future funding crisis in Social Care related to the ever-growing numbers of older … Continue reading →

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Social Care Funding Going Nowhere.

Posted on October 10, 2017 by

A crisis in social has been building up for years and at its heart are two questions :- “Who is going to pay for it?” and “Where is the money going to come from?”. At the start of this decade … Continue reading →

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Express Care

Posted on October 3, 2017 by

I have written a lot about Care ever since I started this blog and it seems the situation isn’t getting any better.    In fact it is becoming a lot worse. (Two of my earlier blogs are worth reading :- … Continue reading →

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Social Care Class Action on Bingo

Posted on May 14, 2017 by

Amid all the recent concern about the shortage of funding for older people needing care, “Social care ” hit the headlines today from a rather unusual source.   This is The Times front page headline for the 10 May :- ” Stop … Continue reading →

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2013 Headlines come hauntingly back.

Posted on May 7, 2017 by

One of the good things to come from de-cluttering is that it gives you new ideas for things to write about.     A stored up sense of history.   A temporarily buried time capsule.    A more distant perspective … Continue reading →

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Jeremy Corbyn’s Social Care — less

Posted on April 23, 2017 by

This is a post about politicians, pensioners and social care.  It follows on from my blogs on the previous two Sunday’s which are entitled – “Older People are Clutter” and “Social Care Straws in the Wind”. The local election season … Continue reading →

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Social Care Straws in the Wind

Posted on April 16, 2017 by

Social care for older people is in a mess.     An almost permanent hotchpotch of indecision and political prevarication.    The truth is nobody much cares about older voters until elections come around. The NHS does as little social care … Continue reading →

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