The Government has set out its plans for closer integration of the health and social care systems to ensure better continuity of care for vulnerable people. A series of pioneer projects will be launched at the end of the summer to explore new ways of pooling budgets, speeding up discharge from hospitals and streamlining a...
An out-of-hours GP service is using nurses to cover the absence of doctors, according...
Vulnerable elderly people could be given personal NHS workers responsible for their h...
A Lib Dem peer has accused Lord Falconer, the former Lord Chancellor, of "Orwellian s...
Carers should be screened for signs of depression by their GPs, doctors say. The Roya...
Tom Greatrex said disability benefit assessments were “crude” and caused distress, responding to comments by a doctor who worked for assessment contractor Atos....
Sharon Hodgson MP, Labour's Shadow Children's Minister, responding to the publication of 'Hidden from View', The Children's Society's report on young carers, said: ...
Labour party press release David Cameron is not being straight with elderly people and their families about the Government's plans for social care, Labour sa...
Norman Lamb indicated that the Lib Dems would not allow parliamentary time for a Tory private member's bill to legislate for an EU referendum by 2017. "The fact i...
Jeremy Hunt has been forced to deny accusations that a top adviser influenced the Government’s plans to shelve plans for minimum alcohol pricing and plain cigarette ...
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