New King’s Fund Analysis Shows Delayed Discharges Cost NHS £2.7bn in 2025/26
The financial cost of delayed discharges has risen to £2.7bn in 2025/26, up 7.5% in just one-year, new King’s Fund analysis has found.
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Baroness Casey Warns Social Care Reform Will Fail Without Public Consent
Baroness Louise Casey of Blackstock used a major speech to local government leaders to warn that we must resist the temptation to attempt major reform of adult social care…
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Alzheimer’s Research Takes its call for Greater Investment to Westminster
Alzheimer’s Research UK has taken its campaign for greater investment in dementia research directly to Westminster, hosting a major parliamentary event that brought together MPs…
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Thousands More Vulnerable Adults to Be Offered RSV Vaccine to Prevent Serious Lung Infection
Thousands more people including those in residential care at risk from a virus which causes pneumonia and other serious lung infections will be able to get vital protection on the NHS this winter.
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Secretary of State Announces Preferred Candidate for Chair of CQC
Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE has been named as the government’s preferred candidate to be the next chair of the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
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Dementia Deaths Among Women at Highest Level in Five Years
Alzheimer’s Society have warned dementia is taking a growing and disproportionate toll on women, after new analysis found deaths among women in England and Wales have climbed…
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Health Secretary Faces MPs on Social Care Reform, Hospital Waiting Lists and Abolishing NHS England
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, James Murray, will face questioning from MPs next week on a raft of issues affecting the health and social care sector…
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The Dementia Trust Launches New Impact Accelerator Programme
The Dementia Trust has announced the first recipient of its new Impact Accelerator programme, awarding £45,000 to K.i.M, a sensory tool designed to improve the lives…
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Prime Minister Will Have ‘No Excuse’ Not to Start Fixing Social Care Before General Election, MPs Say
The Health and Social Care Committee has urged the next Prime Minister to confirm that full proposals to fix adult social care should be published before 2028…
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Burnham’s Rise Puts Preventative Social Care Back in the Spotlight
With speculation growing that Andy Burnham could become the UK’s next Prime Minister, attention is once again turning to his long-standing ambition to reform health and social care through earlier intervention and prevention.
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Care Homes Warned as Workplace Stress Becomes a Growing Source of Discrimination and Dismissal Claims
UK care employers are being warned that unmanaged workplace stress isn’t just a HR concern — it can quickly become a serious legal liability.
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Care England Publishes Landmark Report and Toolkit on Choking Prevention for People with Learning Disabilities
Care England, the largest and most representative body for independent adult social care providers in England, today publishes…
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New Clinical Fellowships Set to Bring Better Diagnosis and Treatments Closer for People with Dementia
Six new Clinical Fellowships have been announced to help bring cutting-edge dementia research closer to the people who need it most…
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Specialist Dementia Wing Opens to Meet Scotland’s Growing Demand for Complex Care
A new dementia wing designed to support men with complex care needs has opened offering specialist dementia placements unavailable in much of Scotland.
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Scientists Discover Mechanism For Brain Cell Death In Alzheimer’s Disease
Scientists at King’s College London and the UK Dementia Research Institute have made a significant advance in understanding how Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) damage the brain.
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