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HEALTH
Bed blocking down by just 3% a month on from £250m plan
By Paul Marinko | 22 February 2023
The Government’s £250m initiative to speed up hospital discharges reduced the number of bed block...
WHITEHALL
Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach to social care reform
By Becky Wilkinson | 15 February 2023
Becky Wilkinson examines what Wolverhampton City Council has learned from being a trailblazer cou...
WHITEHALL
Pride, innovation... and disappointment
By Karen Fuller | 15 February 2023
Karen Fuller sets out Oxfordshire CC’s experiences of preparing to pilot social care charging ref...
WHITEHALL
Lib Dems propose social care pay increase
By Mark Conrad | 06 February 2023
Almost a million frontline social care workers would receive significant pay rises under Lib Dem ...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Let's make greater use of technology in social care
By Jon Rallings | 01 February 2023
In the midst of a recruitment and retention crisis, councils need to keep dedicated social care s...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
The case for a budget-setting collective
By Michael Hudson | 01 February 2023
Michael Hudson looks ahead at planning for 2024-25 budget-setting, and he says we need to do this...
DEVOLUTION
The next showrunners
By Jonathan Werran | 01 February 2023
Jonathan Werran says that, whatever and whoever is running the show after next year’s General Ele...
HEALTH
Sector given role in NHS plan
By Paul Marinko | 31 January 2023
Local government will join an ‘expert group’ with the voluntary and community sector and care pro...
WHITEHALL
Sector calls for action over care home purchasing plan
By Paul Marinko | 30 January 2023
Local government has called for action so a £200m initiative to address hospital bed blocking avo...
HEALTH
Discharge fund 'destabilised' care market
By Martin Ford | 26 January 2023
A Whitehall mandarin has heard of the fallout from emergency measures aimed at easing hospital be...
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