Proposal aimed at freeing up NHS beds and offering home care could be included in white paper on reformRadical plans for a new national care service under which health and social care would be delivered by the same organisation are being actively consi…
England’s NHS and care services need 1.1m extra staff by 2031, finds study
Health Foundation says government must spend up to £86.4bn more on services to maintain standardsThe NHS and social care services in England will need more than 1.1 million extra staff over the next decade to keep up with growing demand, research sugg…
Children will pay the price for universal credit cut | Letters
The benefit reduction will affect child welfare services and only cost more later down the line, says Emily Aklan, while Sabine Goodwin says food banks will struggle to copeYour article (Universal credit cut will lead to more UK children in care – stud…
Care homes are desperately short of staff – why no emergency UK visas for them? | Simon Jenkins
As the government hastily arranges visas for truck drivers, its lack of regard for the care sector crisis is clearDespite all the panic in government and at the petrol station forecourt, there is another urgent question: what about the care homes? The …
We can’t fix the social care sector without fixing the way we treat its workers | Angela Rayner
Before I was elected to parliament I was a home care worker. I know how broken the system isAngela Rayner is Labour deputy leader and shadow secretary for the future of workThe scourge of poverty wages and insecure work doesn’t just blight the lives of…
National insurance hike to hit NHS and care staff with £900m tax bill
Exclusive: Tax rise will inflict ‘terrible’ financial toll on health and social care workers, analysis findsBoris Johnson’s national insurance hike to fund health and social care will hit NHS and care workers with a £900m tax bill, the Guardian can rev…
If Labour wants to win, it needs to promise the change Conservatives won’t deliver | Ellie Mae O’Hagan
Tories splash just enough cash to preserve power; Labour could actually empower othersAfter the government announced a tax rise to pay for social care last week, the political scientist Matthew Goodwin called it “a new era in British politics”. The alr…
Boris Johnson is stealing Labour’s clothes? He’ll sell you a bridge too | Aditya Chakrabortty
Austerity for the poor, favours for the rich, and not a penny on frontline social care – this is truest blueNaughty Boris! You know the line and its intonation. There goes the prime minister, tearing into the tenets of Toryism with the same puppyish fe…
Care homes urge easing of rules on overseas workers to avert staffing crisis
Over 70,000 care home staff will have to leave sector in November unless they get two Covid jabsCare home leaders are urging the government to lift restrictions on low-paid foreign workers entering the UK to help solve a worsening staffing crisis, whic…
Labour should turn to its 2019 manifesto for social care answers | Letters
Readers believe the party should look to the pledges it made on tax and spendingHere’s an idea for Labour policy on social care – the one presented in the 2019 general election manifesto(Labour may tax wealth more heavily to fund social care, says Star…