The boundary between health and social care has been a problem for many years. It’s never been defined or organised rationally. At last the Labour Party is making it a priority. Whether the Dilnot proposals will work, we don’t know. Defending the rights of children to inherit property doesn’t seem the key socialist objective.
- National Support & Care Service Wales — progress 23 May 2024
- THE WHITE PAPER – RE-HASHING THE GLOSSY BROCHURE WITH ZERO CHANGE 14 December 2021
- TWO CONTRASTING CAMPAIGNS FOR REFORM OF SOCIAL CARE – SECTOR LEADERS AND DISABLED PEOPLE 19 July 2021
- The Battle For Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) in Residential Buildings By Georgie Hulme (Co-Founder – CLADDAG), member of SHA, Manchester. 7 July 2021
- REBALANCING SOCIAL CARE IN WALES — Response to Welsh Government White Paper on Social Care. 17 May 2021
- THE FEELEY REVIEW OF SOCIAL CARE IN SCOTLAND 17 March 2021
- Realistic hope for a Social Care system driven by Human Rights from Scotland 19 February 2021
- Social Market Stability in Wales — Consultation Response SHA-Cymru 3 February 2021
- MAKING INDEPENDENT LIVING THE DRIVING VISION FOR SOCIAL CARE 16 January 2021
- The Marketisation and Privatisation of the NHS 8 January 2021
- SHA’s response to NHSE’s consultation on putting ICSs on a statutory footing 7 January 2021
- THE CONTINUED DENIAL OF COUNCIL AND POLITICAL LEADERS 4 December 2020
- THE CASE FOR SOCIAL CARE REFORM. 27 October 2020
- A great launch of the joint SHA/KONP social care campaign 13 October 2020
- Jeremy Hunt, the incompetent ideologue 9 October 2020
- ASSESSING THE VIABILITY OF THE SOCIAL CARE SECTOR — Response to Welsh Government Proposals 7 October 2020
- Launch of the joint SHA/KONP campaign to reshape social care in England 24 September 2020
- WALES — HOW SUSTAINABLE IS OUR CARE SERVICE ?? 24 September 2020
- A Scottish Care Service 4 September 2020
- THE FAILED LEADERSHIP OF SOCIAL CARE, BANKRUPT OF IDEAS 18 August 2020
- Why the UK failed the pandemic test 3 August 2020
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 20 27 July 2020
- SECURING A SOCIALLY JUST SYSTEM OF SOCIAL CARE 21 July 2020
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 18 13 July 2020
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 17 6 July 2020
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 16 29 June 2020
- SHA Cymru Wales: Response to Welsh Labour’s Stage Two Consultation paper on health and social care. 17 June 2020
- SHA POLICY ON ADULT SOCIAL CARE AND CARERS 16 June 2020
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 14 15 June 2020
- FRONTLINE QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK FOR THE SHADOW TEAM 14 6 20 15 June 2020
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 13 8 June 2020
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 12 1 June 2020
- Briefing Topic 3 – Test, Trace, outsourcing 30 May 2020
- Briefing Topic 2 – Inequalities 28 May 2020
- Thousands of care workers could be ineligible for £60,000 Covid-19 payment, warns Unite 22 May 2020
- Covid-19: food and health inequalities and the future of public health nutrition 20 May 2020
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 10 18 May 2020
- News from the Frontline 01.05.20 1 May 2020
- WELSH GOVERNMENT PROVIDES ADDITIONAL £500 PAYMENT FOR SOCIAL CARE WORKFORCE 1 May 2020
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 6 20 April 2020
- QUESTIONS TO ASK THE SOS FOR HEALTH 15 April 2020
- PROTECT ALL FRONTLINE HEALTHCARE WORKERS 1 April 2020
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 3 31 March 2020
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 2 23 March 2020
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 1 17 March 2020
- SHA statement on the 2020 Budget 12 March 2020
- CROI 2020: Special session on COVID-19 11 March 2020
- 2 papers from Jean Hardiman Smith 23 December 2019
- Social Care 17 December 2019
- New laws to implement NHSE’s Long Term Plan 16 October 2019
- Our People: The Great Yorkshire Conversation Part one 15 August 2019
- Social Care Motion 23 July 2019
- Reclaim Social Care 7 July 2019
- Root And Branch Reform Of Social Care Needed 21 March 2019
- Mental health and wellbeing of NHS staff is essential for our health service to thrive, BMA warns 21 February 2019
- Caring for an ageing population – some Welsh perspectives 27 January 2019
- HCT Follow-up meeting 5 December 2018
- Social Care Conference 17th Nov in Birmingham 31 October 2018
- Consultation survey for the NHS England Integrated Care Provider Contracts – all answers are here 24 September 2018
- A Healthier Wales? Cymru Iachach? 30 August 2018
- DEVELOPING NARRATIVES 19 August 2018
- appeal against NHS England’s new Integrated Care Provider contract: by Jenny 19 August 2018
- Disabled people’s independence 28 May 2018
- SOCIAL CARE PRIORITIES & OPTIONS IN WALES 26 May 2018
- A new framework for best HIV care: BHIVA Standards of Care revised and updated (2018) 26 April 2018
- The labour of care: why we need an alternative political economy of social care 26 April 2018
- The crisis in social care is connected to the gendered inadequacy of labour law 24 April 2018
- HYPOTHECATION — MAGIC BULLET, PLACEBO OR SOMETHING WORSE? 2 April 2018
- Jeremy Hunt’s seven principles on adult social care reform: a new way forward or just rhetoric? 22 March 2018
- What can England learn from the German approach to long-term care funding? 21 March 2018
- Adult social care: is privatisation irreversible? 15 February 2018
- Joining up Health and Social Care 30 January 2018
- In the bleak midwinter… 3 January 2018
- When the US sneezes…health and social care futures in the UK 14 December 2017
- Give the Care Quality Commission more powers 7 December 2017
- Back to the future? Reclaiming the social after Grenfell Tower 28 November 2017
- The UK’s problem with long-term care: short-term thinking 25 November 2017
- The Failure of Competitive Tendering in Social Care 30 October 2017
- It’s time for Labour to take rights seriously 21 September 2017
- Policy Proposal for Social Care 8 September 2017
- NHS Continuing Healthcare funding: anomalous, irregular, and often baffling 20 July 2017
- Why the Dilnot cap is not the answer to the social care funding crisis 26 June 2017
- Social Care Funding: Understanding the reality behind the manifesto commitments 3 June 2017
- Policy Proposal for Social Care 12 May 2017
- Damning indictment of the Tory approach on the NHS/Social Care 27 April 2017
- PRIMARY CARE NETWORKS IN WALES 12 March 2017
- Imagining the future: Growing older together? 4 March 2017
- It’s not just about the money: 3 March 2017
- Social Care Meltdown 29 November 2016
- Market model for care of people with learning disabilities is inviable 27 November 2016
- Adults with learning disabilities on the rack 10 November 2016
- The future for social care 4 October 2016
- Learning disability and social care 3 October 2016
- You Need to Be Rich to Grow Old With Dignity in Britain today 23 September 2016
- Independent Living and Long Term Care 21 August 2016
- Developing a new policy for social (care) 6 July 2016
- Mental health and social work 15 June 2016
- Personal Budgets of the future 9 June 2016
- We need to talk about co-production? 15 April 2016
- Report on Health and Social Care Summit 18/3/16 6 April 2016
- The unsuccessful privatisation of social care 5 April 2016
- Savings, services & silver bullets 31 March 2016
- Britain’s care homes are being turned into complex financial instruments 15 March 2016
- Social care must not disable people with intellectual disabilities 9 March 2016
- Local Housing Allowance and supported housing 2 March 2016
- Austerity hampers personalisation in social care 29 February 2016
- Proof council cuts hit poorest areas hardest 17 February 2016
- Ending Tendering in Social Care 16 February 2016
- Heath Action Report 9 February 2016
- SOCIAL CARE REVIEW IN SCOTLAND 15 January 2016
- SOCIAL WORK IN WALES VALUED 14 January 2016
- Beyond austerity: the National Care Service and a new social settlement 30 December 2015
- Quality Care Commission report 20 December 2015
- Relationships – Thinking differently about developing the care system 24 November 2015
- Speech to National Voices Annual Members’ Conference 2015 13 November 2015
- Save our Social Care – Keep our Social Care 8 November 2015
- Patients Know Best 27 October 2015
- Who is looking forward to their first day in residential care? 26 October 2015
- Fit for the future 12 October 2015
- A holistic approach to health and care 24 September 2015
- New challenges or old for Labour health policy? 15 September 2015
- Social isolation and loneliness 4 September 2015
- Will Personal Health Budgets Destroy the NHS? 2 September 2015
- Plan B – Be Afraid 7 August 2015
- Giving social care the priority it deserves 13 July 2015
- Buurtzorg 11 June 2015
- What is the future for NHS reform? 21 April 2015
- A Better Plan for the NHS Health and Care 11 April 2015
- Better community care in Lewisham 3 April 2015
- Loneliness is bad for health 18 March 2015
- Five ways the government is failing NHS patients 17 March 2015
- Dealing with market failure 16 March 2015
- Integration: harnessing the power of co-production 11 March 2015
- Is integration the end for inclusion? 10 February 2015
- Care crisis and NHS crisis – time for a new response 4 February 2015
- What do we already know about Integrating Health and Social Care? 3 February 2015
- Key Challenges for Care 14 December 2014
- Social Care 11 December 2014
- Forced To Care 1 December 2014
- Fair deal for Care Workers 19 November 2014
- Short staff dilemma 22 July 2013
- Who Owns Care Homes? 19 July 2013
- Independent Commission on Whole Person Care 27 April 2013
- Andy Burnham’s plan for care, and questions that arise from it 16 April 2013
- Using the wealth of older people to ensure the affordability and quality of their health and social care 12 March 2013
- Using resident scrutiny to drive housing and care accountability 24 February 2013
- Reforming social care in England – half a step forward and several steps back? 27 November 2012
- Integrated Care for the Vulnerable: the technical, organisational and political challenges 5 November 2012
- Labour Party Policy for Disabled People 28 September 2012
- Bristol Festival of Health Ideas 12 October 2014
- Patient Power Can Make London Healthier 11 September 2014
- Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England 6 September 2014
- Privatisation and Care homes 22 August 2014
- Independent local commissioners, not CCTV 13 July 2014
- Healthier Scotland 24 June 2014
- Independent Living 22 June 2014
- Amendments to Labour Policies 9 June 2014
- Socialist Health Association Central Council Minutes 9 June 2014
- The Kingsmill Review: Taking Care 19 May 2014
- Social Work Action Network Conference report 13 May 2014
- The Independent Commission on Whole Person Care 1 May 2014
- Why don’t we do it? 17 April 2014
- The Advantages Of Care At Home vs Institutionalisation 3 April 2014
- Scotland – It’s Time to Care 22 March 2014
- What kind of care service do we want? 20 March 2014
- Direct Payments: 10 reasons for not using them 5 February 2014
- A New Kind of Doctor 9 The Necessity Of Community 23 October 1988
- Cameron’s hidden dementia taxes 8 January 2014
- The future of the NHS? Lessons from the market in social care in England 18 November 2013
- A One Nation Approach To Health And Social Care 30 October 2013
- Keep it Simple: whole person care 23 October 2013
- To Integrate Care, You`ll Need Evidence-Based Network Development 11 September 2013
- Social Care Principles 31 August 2013
- FUNDING FOR ADULT SOCIAL CARE 6 August 2013
- A Socialist Policy For Nurses 14 September 1967
- Place Of The Social Worker In The Health Service 12 September 1946
- The Work Of The Psychiatric Social Worker 16 July 1946
- Planning for the under fives 12 September 1940
- 21st Century NHS and Social Care – Delivering Integration 6 June 2013
- Health and social care service funding 6 June 2012
- Care Bill 26 May 2013
- Frailty: a critical test in reversing a ‘Fragmented Illness Service’ to a ‘National Health Service”? 26 May 2013
- Policy Discussions on Health and Social Care 23 June 2013
- The New Care Covenant 18 May 2013
- ‘Whole-Person Care’ A One Nation approach to health and care for the 21st Century 24 January 2013
- Fabian ’13 Conference – ‘Next State’ ‘A New NHS: Repeal The Act, But Then What?’ 14 January 2013
- Protect the inheritance! 11 May 2013
- Health Service Integration 17 March 2013
- The Politics of Social Care 9 July 2012
- The Myth of Privatisation and Choice in Social Care 25 April 2013
- Zero Hours Contracts in the NHS and Social Care 17 July 2013
- Action on Elder Abuse
- Adult Social Care – Law Commission 2011
- Alzheimer’s Society campaign for Fair access to fully funded NHS continuing care for all older people. Barbara Pointon’s account of her complaint to the Ombudsman about her fight for respite care, which the Society supported, is both inspiring and illuminating
- Building the National Care Service 2010
- Care and support – NHS Choices
- Care home crisis requires reform, not fire-fighting 2011
- Care homes for older people in the UK: A market study OFT 2005
- Care Standards Act 2000
- Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995
- Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000
- Carers and Direct Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 2002
- Carers Trust
- Carers UK
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Charging for residential accommodation guide 2011
- Charging for Social Services – in Wales
- Coalition of Carers in Scotland
- Commission on Funding of Care and Support (Dilnot)
- Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002
- Continuing care policy
- Coughlan Judgement
- Dignity in old age comes at a high price – Joan Bakewell 2011
- Inquiry into the Delivery of Community Care in Scotland: Response by the Scottish Executive 2001
- Health Select Committee report on Long Term Care 2005
- How can we spot the difference between good and bad social care?
- Independence Well-being and Choice 2005 – SHA response
- LSE health and social care
- National Care Association
- The National Care Standards Commission Registration Regulations 2001
- National Service Framework for Older People
- NHS-funded nursing care policy
- Nursing Home Abuse
- Options paper seeks fairer ways to share the cost of caring for older people 2005
- Paying for long-term care: Moving forward 2006
- People First
- Personal Health Budgets pilot programme
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Politics of care
- Private Client Adviser
- Protect the inheritance
- Reforming social care in England – half a step forward and several steps back? 2012
- Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001
- The Poor Law 1601
- The Sutherland Report 2000
- SHA Submission to the House of Commons Health Committee 1997
- SHA Policy on charges for residential care 1999
- Shaping the future of care together
- SharedLivesPlus
- Supporting People (Costs of sheltered accommodation) Scotland
- Wanless Social Care Review 2006