Social Care Funding: Understanding the reality behind the manifesto commitments
Election Briefing Note May 2017 Summary The current amount of public expenditure on social care …
Health and Care Services in Manchester
The announcement in February 2015 that local councils in Greater Manchester would be given a …
Are there plans to privatise the NHS?
And does it matter if I still get treatment free at the point of use? …
Health Reform in Revolutionary Russia
The Russian Revolution in October 1917 was one of the world shattering events of the …
The truth about Sustainability and Transformation Plans:
How Simon Stevens imposed a reorganisation designed for transnational capitalism on England’s NHS. Recently shadow …
Live Sustainably – Live Well
Introduction This paper introduces a project (Live Sustainably – Live Well) to develop local arrangements …
Avoiding Another Failed NHS Experiment
A possible unwanted side effect of this most avoidable of unnecessary general elections, and the …
Mental Health policy proposals
Fulfilment of repeated high level commitments to ‘parity of esteem’ for mental health, and urgent implementation …
Free school meals
Labour’s policy is to extend Free School Meals to all pupils in primary schools. We …
Sustainability and Transformation Plans, and Accountable Care
Late last year, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) were adopted in each of 44 areas …
Saving the NHS and Social Care
Extracted from the Liberal Democrat manifesto. The NHS and social care services are in a …