Social care crisis: how big is the problem?
by Sophie Coles Ambulance service in crisis Every day in September, nearly 400 patients and [...]
7 11, 2022
20 09, 2022
New C.Co appointment drives Maximising Proportionate Care programme
A former occupational therapist, who has spent the last 16 years of her career working [...]
11 07, 2022
Clock is ticking for Fair Cost of Care Fund applications
by Natalie Abraham Government funding for 18+ domiciliary care and 65+ care is available via [...]
9 05, 2022
Deadline for Fair Cost of Care Funding application
by Natalie Abraham With just five months to go before the Government deadline for applying [...]
21 03, 2022
Determining a fair cost of care
by Natalie Abraham At the end of last year, the Government published detailed guidance on [...]
15 11, 2021
Recognising value of essential workers
Over the preceding months there has been a lot of conversation around the importance of [...]
27 09, 2021
Counting the cost of new care proposals
The Government’s announcement of new proposals to address the funding crisis in social care has [...]
13 09, 2021
What price care?
During Covid, the very nature of visiting elderly or vulnerable people during a pandemic became [...]
6 09, 2021
Funding care for older people: focusing on the needs of the frailest in society
For many of us, Covid has thrown into sharp relief both the preciousness of life [...]
7 06, 2021
Keeping the cost of care fair
The Care Act 2014 placed responsibility on local authorities to facilitate both the publicly funded [...]