Sentences with phrase «social care system»

But those in the struggling social care system may disagree.

Serious and real reform must include an honest appraisal of what a modern social care system costs and how it is to be funded.

The message from the Darzi review is clear: politicians must stop treating the health and social care system as a liability, writes Harry Quilter - Pinner, director of strategy at homeless and addictions charity SCT

Dr Doug Brown, Chief Policy and Research Officer at Alzheimer's Society, commented: «70 % of people living in care homes have dementia, and it's clear from these findings that they're bearing the brunt of a chronically underfunded social care system.

Britain's struggling social care system needs urgent change to save elderly and disabled people from a «vicious circle», campaigners say.

He finally stated: «Why can't the prime minister listen to those in local government, to the King's Fund, the NHS Confederation, her own council leaders and recognise this social care crisis forces people to give up work to care for loved ones because there isn't a system to do it; makes people stay in hospital longer than they should; and leads people into a horrible, isolated life when they should be cared for by all of us through a properly funded social care system.

The Choice Review, published in February, recognised this problem and among other measures recommended that people's end of life preferences are recorded so that staff across the health and social care systems know of people's choices.

The entire social care system is creaking and, to their shame, politicians of all parties have watched it get worse and constantly kicked the problem into the long grass.

As the health and social care system becomes increasingly paperless and digital it also becomes ever more important that there are adequate and robust protections in place to protect the data and information held within it.

Ministers must produce a plan to save the struggling social care system this year - or risk the sector ending up «on its knees», a powerful group...

It was even higher than that for 18 to 34 - year - olds who have a disability and the charity put it down to things like underfunding in the social care system and the struggle to find a job.

- And when our NHS and social care system is under such pressure, can it really remain a priority to pay the Winter Fuel Allowance - a vital support for middle and low income pensioners - to the richest 5 % of pensioners, those with incomes high enough to pay the higher or top rates of tax?

And Health and social care systems should deliver outcomes valued by the population.

Considering, that spending on health and social care is going to have to rise remarkably over the next decade or two, the need to de-bureaucratize our publicly funded health and social care systems is all the more important, to avoid mistrust and to retain popular support for funding these systems.

As the social care system faces collapse, the key test for this white paper was to deliver an urgent timetable to reform social care funding.

«While we wait for an overhaul of the social care system, it's vital that care services aren't allowed to wither on the vine.

The health and social care system is under immense pressure.

Yesterday NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens called on the Government to provide «immediate support» to the social care system, as well as a longer - term redesign of services aimed at the elderly.

Alan Johnson has launched a six - month consultation to determine the future shape of the social care system as the population ages.

It seems we can not go a month without another report landing to shake our confidence in the NHS and social care system.

Private companies are set to begin profiting from the social care system for vulnerable children from today.

Our childcare and social care systems are not fit for purpose.

Emotive and emotional, his address at one point saw him tell the conference hall «I have never been clearer about anything else in my life than this» on what he described as a «malnourished» social care system.

And it won't just be the NHS that has to respond to this challenge but our social care system as well.

That is why, through personal budgets, we are pursuing the reform of our care services; we will be consulting on a green paper on the long - term funding issues for care and for carers; and in the coming months I will say more about the reforms needed in both the NHS and our social care system in order to meet this challenge.

Nearly 1.3 m «silver strivers» — those working beyond the state pension age — would have to start paying national insurance to prop up the social care system, under plans being considered by the government.

This was followed by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt saying the NHS and social care system will need «a greater share» of government spending in the future.

Barbara Keeley, the shadow minister for social care, said: «Councils urgently need government funding to stabilise the social care system.

«Deep and fundamental reforms of health and social care systems will be required,» says Dr John Beard, Director of the Department of Aging and Life Course at the World Health Organization (WHO), and co-leader of the Series with Dr Ties Boerma and Dr Somnath Chatterji, also from WHO.

Together, these symptoms cause substantial distress for both people with dementia and their caregivers, and contribute to people moving into residential care earlier, placing financial burden on the social care system.

It campaigning for greater integration of mental health support and services into education, health and social care systems and believes that every school in England should have at least one member of staff trained in mental health issues.

This problem is exacerbated when the school seeks to access help itself, because of the chaos in the health and social care system.»

Two new appointments have been set out to work closely with the social work profession and share best practice across the social care system.

If these costs were not recovered as part of a clinical negligence settlement, claimants would become dependent upon the social care system and the burden would again fall back to the public purse and ultimately the NHS.

This will bring the operating principles for the charging policy for social care in line with those that are used in the rest of the health and social care system.»

The only other one that slightly fits is condition h) in «the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems»

I've always argued that online counselling has a big role in complementing in - person therapy and as part of a joined up service, connected to the wider health and social care system.

We are determined that children and young people should be put at the heart of the new health and social care system.

Sixteen per cent of older people may have depression and related disorders; potentially the prevention of such depression, particularly among high - risk groups such as the bereaved, might help avoid significant costs to families, and health and social care systems (Smit et al., 2006).