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• Labour needs to think again on care home beds | Letters

  23-06-2024 18:28
  
  Johnbosco Nwogbo of We Own It, John Harvey and Rodney Smith on the funding and allocation of social care bedsIn light of Labour’s failure to address in any serious way the issue of NHS funding in its manifesto, the new plan to hand already limited NHS resources to private care homes is puzzling. After 15 years of government cuts to local authority budgets, social care is dominated by private-equity-owned companies, extracting billions in profits from the social care system. Handing NHS cas
  
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• The falling birthrate threatens a disaster so costly no politician dares think about it | Sonia Sodha

  23-06-2024 10:05
  
  A demographic timebomb caused by an ageing, shrinking population is looming for many western countries, so where are the policies to defuse it?A conference on changing demographics I attended last week tackled the fact that, while we are living longer – a great product of medical innovation – many of us will also experience extended periods later in life with physical and mental decline, so requiring more health and social care than in the past. Yet falling birthrates mean
  
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• Heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua wants to open care home for retired boxers

  23-06-2024 01:01
  
  Boxer says ex-fighters suffer poor health and that he hopes to help them as part of his sports legacyAnthony Joshua has said he is considering opening a care home for retired boxers with health problems.Speaking to Lauren Laverne on Sunday’s episode of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, the former world heavyweight champion said he had discussed issues faced by ex-fighters with his former boxing coach, John Oliver. Continue reading...
  
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