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• How to sort out the crisis engulfing dementia care | Letters

  04-01-2023 19:37
  Sarah McClinton, Les Bright and Jeremy Seymour on the pressures facing the care home sectorHeads of adult social services share concern at the poor quality of some care and support for people living with dementia (Dementia patients in England facing ‘national crisis’ in care safety, 28 December). But as your report makes clear, the underlying cause is inadequate funding of our social care system. We must take issue with the claim by a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson
  
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• Scottish councils urge Sturgeon to suspend plans for national care service

  04-01-2023 14:17
  Umbrella body for country’s 32 councils says plans would be too costly and disruptive at time of financial crisisScottish council leaders have called for Nicola Sturgeon’s government to suspend its plans for a new national care service, in a growing battle over funding.The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, the umbrella body for the country’s 32 councils, said setting up the service would be unjustifiably costly and disruptive during a time of financial crisis. Continue
  
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