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    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Private care homes push for sharp rise in prices to take on NHS patients

      Operators say higher tariff would allow them to attract and keep staff as hospitals look to free up space

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The NHS needs a no-taboos review

      Structure and funding of the UK health system should be re-examined for a new era

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      National Health Service
      UK health leaders question impact of cash on freeing up hospital beds

      Call for ‘urgent clarification’ on ministers’ plans for up to £250mn going towards easing pressure on NHS

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      We need to see social care as an investment not a cost

      Other countries have found big answers to managing ageing populations and it’s time Britain did, too

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      OutlookJoseph Bambridge
      Behind the row about nurses’ pay lies a sickness in the NHS workforce

      Ill, overstretched staff are increasingly struggling to get treatment from an ill, overstretched service

    • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
      Hunt to delay social care reforms to help fix UK public finances

      Chancellor accepts need for pause of at least two years despite previously championing cap

    • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
      Education
      Thousands of children aren’t turning up to school post-lockdown. Why?

      Pupil attendance in England has plummeted. Educators say the crisis has been a long time coming

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      National Health Service
      Health secretary sets up £500mn social care fund to boost NHS

      Coffey aims to stem exodus of senior doctors with pension change as she tries to tackle patient backlog

    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
      Can my mother avoid using her home to fund care costs?

      She would like to transfer her property to me and my siblings

    • Saturday, 30 July, 2022
      David Oliver
      The threat to NHS services is urgent and existential

      We are broken, burnt out and need politicians to face up to the scale of this crisis

    • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
      Sarah O'Connor
      Exploitation of migrants is rising as care homes struggle to fill jobs

      Chronic underfunding of the sector has led to recruitment problems and mistreatment of workers

    • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
      News in-depthNational Health Service
      What can the UK learn from the Dutch approach to end-of-life care?

      Intensifying medical needs of baby boomers have exposed flaws in health system

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      National Health Service
      Lancet study links NHS privatisation with decline in patient care

      Research suggests rise in outsourcing led to ‘higher rates of treatable mortality’ from 2013-20

    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      CareTech Holdings PLC
      CareTech to be taken private by founders in £1.2bn deal

      UK social care provider has benefited from rising demand during the pandemic

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
      Stephen Bush
      Care homes have a problem — they are focusing on the wrong customer

      The ‘testimonials’ page of many facilities is long on statements from relatives, but not from those in care themselves

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      UK care homes face soaring insurance premiums, charity warns

      Covid fuels higher costs but rising energy bills, lower occupancy and staff shortages add to providers’ pain

    • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
      Easing UK immigration rules will not solve care crisis, says advisory group

      Government urged to fund rise in pay to at least £10.50 an hour to compete with warehouse jobs

    • Monday, 4 April, 2022
      LexHealthcare
      CareTech: public scrutiny of child services is driving take-private efforts Premium content

      Surprise approach for social care provider promises to relieve shareholders of stress

    • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
      News in-depthNational Health Service
      Northumbria shows how new health levy can help reduce NHS waiting lists

      UK trust has improved outcomes with innovative practice and long-term planning

    • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
      National Health Service
      Public satisfaction with the NHS falls to 25-year low across Britain

      Dissatisfaction rises during the pandemic driven by concerns over waiting times, staff shortages and lack of funding

    • Wednesday, 16 March, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Whitehall ‘lacks plan’ to turn extra NHS funding into better care, MPs warn

      Spending committee criticises health department for overseeing ‘years of decline’ on treatment waiting lists

    • Monday, 14 March, 2022
      UK care homes
      Covid care home policy a ‘devastating failure’, High Court told

      Families and lawyers attack government decision to transfer elderly and disabled from hospital

    • Thursday, 10 March, 2022
      Competition & Markets Authority
      More foster care should be state run, says UK competition regulator

      Taxpayers pay price of ‘dysfunctional’ market in care provision and children’s homes, says CMA

    • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
      National Health Service
      NHS on ‘unsustainable financial trajectory’, says Sajid Javid

      ‘Small-state Tory’ says sectors from education to infrastructure will suffer without reform

    • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
      Healthcare
      UK government to pool health and social care budgets in England

      More co-ordination between sectors promised in white paper that critics say lacks detail, especially on staff shortages

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