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• Revealed: NHS could take over social care, swelling budget to £150bn

  27-07-2020 20:09
  
  Exclusive: former David Cameron policy chief drafted in to help with Johnson’s pledge to fix social care
  Social care could be brought under the control of the NHS in a controversial move that would see the health service’s budget soar to £150bn, the Guardian has learned.Downing Street has drafted in David Cameron’s former policy chief Camilla Cavendish to help finalise proposals designed to honour Boris Johnson’s pledge to “fix the crisis in social care”
  
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• Camilla Cavendish: the woman charged with shaking up social care

  27-07-2020 20:08
  
  Boris Johnson’s appointee combines pragmatism with wide experienceRevealed: social care could become part of NHS, swelling budget to £150bn“If how we treat our frail elderly is a measure of a civilised society, we are failing,” Camilla Cavendish wrote in late 2018. “Life is a lottery – but it should not feel like a loaded gun.”It was a typically forthright view from the journalist who rose to become head of Downing Street’s policy unit under David
  
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• Hospitalized COVID-19 patients have low risk of stroke

  27-07-2020 17:46
  A new paper shows a low risk of stroke in patients hospitalized for COVID-19. Notably, the majority of afflicted patients had existing risk factors, such as high blood pressure and diabetes. These findings provide more clarity about the role COVID-19 plays in causing stroke in a diverse population of the United States.
  
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• Taxing matter of solving the social care crisis | Letters

  27-07-2020 17:11
  
  Readers respond to the news that the over-40s would start contributing towards the cost of care in later life under plans being considered by ministers Here’s a mad idea: why not have a well-staffed department devoted to ensuring the super-wealthy pay their taxes in full (Over-40s in UK to pay more tax under plans to fix social care crisis, 26 July)? Maybe legislation could be brought in to close tax loopholes and ensure they face penalties from, say, substantial fines to prison sentences
  
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• Worcestershire-based care provider expands with backing from Allied Irish Bank (GB)

  27-07-2020 11:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Worcestershire-based provider of specialist residential care and education has expanded with the opening of a new facility for adolescents in a £1.5m project backed by Allied Irish Bank (GB)* (AIB (GB)).     Our Place Schools of Bransford, near Worcester, has launched a new purpose-designed 10-roomed residential centre for adolescents on the autistic spectrum or with severe learning difficulties. […]
  
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• Austerity ‘ripped resilience out of health and care service’ before Covid-19 crisis hit, says IPPR

  27-07-2020 11:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Underinvestment in social and community care left four in five hospitals with ‘dangerously low’ spare beds as crisis hit Major new analysis of the state of the health and care system in England in the run up to the Covid-19 pandemic today reveals the extent of the crisis that was facing medics and carers even […]
  
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• High Wycombe resident celebrates resident’s 100th birthday with time capsule

  27-07-2020 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Elizabeth Sturges, a resident at Gracewell of High Wycombe, celebrated her 100th birthday on Monday 29 June.  Activities Coordinator, Alex Vasile, organised a time capsule to celebrate Elizabeth. Inside the time capsule were Elizabeth’s best memories from the past 100 years and pictures of her family. Elizabeth’s family put together a video to say happy […]
  
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• Pitlochry resident – 98 years young and still learning

  27-07-2020 07:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meet George Greig – 98 years young and still learning. This popular resident of Balhousie Pitlochry care home is so busy he has even the Activities Coordinator at the home catching her breath.   George loves nothing better than a session on an exercise bike. When he’s not taking part in the home’s regular activity […]
  
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• Aged care has been failing for years – coronavirus has merely highlighted systemic problems | Sarah Russell

  27-07-2020 05:00
  
  Authorities want to be seen to be doing something. But for many residents it’s too little, far too lateOur residential aged care system is a national disgrace. The corporatisation of aged care unleashed by the Aged Care Act in 1997 has been an abject failure. Our government now spends some $20bn a year on aged care. Yet, without financial transparency, we don’t know if providers spend government subsidies on direct care of residents or executive salaries.The problems plaguing aged ca
  
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• England's social care plans 'need timetable and to be a radical rethink'

  27-07-2020 01:01
  
  Councils and charities say overhaul promised by PM must be far broader than just funding changesMinisters must publish a timetable for changes to social care before parliament returns in September and that their plans must envision a “radical rethink”, a coalition of councils and charities is demanding.Any overhauled system for England must acknowledge “the importance of social care’s local dimension”, the coalition says in a clear warning against a centralised nati
  
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• England's social care plans 'need timetable and be a radical rethink'

  27-07-2020 01:01
  
  Councils and charities say overhaul promised by PM must be far broader than just funding changesMinisters must publish a timetable for changes to social care before parliament returns in September and that their plans must envision a “radical rethink”, a coalition of councils and charities is demanding.Any overhauled system for England must acknowledge “the importance of social care’s local dimension”, the coalition says in a clear warning against a centralised nati
  
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