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Bereaved mum calls for mandatory learning disability training
20 Jun 2018
A mum of an 18-year-old who died in hospital after a reaction to anti-psychotic drugs, has called for all health professionals to be given mandatory learning disability training. Oliver McGowan had a mild.....
Theresa May's delay of green paper ignores elderly who 'deserve better'
19 Jun 2018
Social care's long-awaited green paper has been postponed again until the autumn, the health secretary Jeremy Hunt has told MPs. Speaking in the House of Commons, Jeremy Hunt dropped the bombshell on Monday.....
Social care must wait till 2020 for money while NHS gets £20bn
18 Jun 2018
Care leaders have expressed their anger over social care having to wait until 2020 for extra money, despite the Prime Minister promising the NHS £20bn more a year over five years as a 70th birthday present. Prime.....
Care minister: 'We're missing a trick' if we don't help informal carers like my mother
05 Jun 2018
Hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers across England will have better job prospects, the Care Minister has promised as part of an action plan she hoped her own mother ‘could have benefitted from’ when she was a carer. Care.....
Elderly feel suicidal over battle to get care at home
01 Jun 2018
Older people are living in misery without home care and some like ’Brian’ have considered taking their own life because council cuts have taken away 3 million hours of home care since 2015, leaving them trapped without help in a.....