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.
- THE WHITE PAPER – RE-HASHING THE GLOSSY BROCHURE WITH ZERO CHANGE 2021-12-14
- TWO CONTRASTING CAMPAIGNS FOR REFORM OF SOCIAL CARE – SECTOR LEADERS AND DISABLED PEOPLE 2021-07-19
- The Battle For Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) in Residential Buildings By Georgie Hulme (Co-Founder – CLADDAG), member of SHA, Manchester. 2021-07-07
- REBALANCING SOCIAL CARE IN WALES — Response to Welsh Government White Paper on Social Care. 2021-05-17
- THE FEELEY REVIEW OF SOCIAL CARE IN SCOTLAND 2021-03-17
- Realistic hope for a Social Care system driven by Human Rights from Scotland 2021-02-19
- Social Market Stability in Wales — Consultation Response SHA-Cymru 2021-02-03
- MAKING INDEPENDENT LIVING THE DRIVING VISION FOR SOCIAL CARE 2021-01-16
- The Marketisation and Privatisation of the NHS 2021-01-08
- SHA’s response to NHSE’s consultation on putting ICSs on a statutory footing 2021-01-07
- THE CONTINUED DENIAL OF COUNCIL AND POLITICAL LEADERS 2020-12-04
- THE CASE FOR SOCIAL CARE REFORM. 2020-10-27
- A great launch of the joint SHA/KONP social care campaign 2020-10-13
- Jeremy Hunt, the incompetent ideologue 2020-10-09
- ASSESSING THE VIABILITY OF THE SOCIAL CARE SECTOR — Response to Welsh Government Proposals 2020-10-07
- Launch of the joint SHA/KONP campaign to reshape social care in England 2020-09-24
- WALES — HOW SUSTAINABLE IS OUR CARE SERVICE ?? 2020-09-24
- A Scottish Care Service 2020-09-04
- THE FAILED LEADERSHIP OF SOCIAL CARE, BANKRUPT OF IDEAS 2020-08-18
- Why the UK failed the pandemic test 2020-08-03
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 20 2020-07-27
- SECURING A SOCIALLY JUST SYSTEM OF SOCIAL CARE 2020-07-21
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 18 2020-07-13
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 17 2020-07-06
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 16 2020-06-29
- SHA Cymru Wales: Response to Welsh Labour’s Stage Two Consultation paper on health and social care. 2020-06-17
- SHA POLICY ON ADULT SOCIAL CARE AND CARERS 2020-06-16
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 14 2020-06-15
- FRONTLINE QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK FOR THE SHADOW TEAM 14 6 20 2020-06-15
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 13 2020-06-08
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 12 2020-06-01
- Briefing Topic 3 – Test, Trace, outsourcing 2020-05-30
- Briefing Topic 2 – Inequalities 2020-05-28
- Thousands of care workers could be ineligible for £60,000 Covid-19 payment, warns Unite 2020-05-22
- Covid-19: food and health inequalities and the future of public health nutrition 2020-05-20
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 10 2020-05-18
- News from the Frontline 01.05.20 2020-05-01
- WELSH GOVERNMENT PROVIDES ADDITIONAL £500 PAYMENT FOR SOCIAL CARE WORKFORCE 2020-05-01
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 6 2020-04-20
- QUESTIONS TO ASK THE SOS FOR HEALTH 2020-04-15
- PROTECT ALL FRONTLINE HEALTHCARE WORKERS 2020-04-01
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 3 2020-03-31
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 2 2020-03-23
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 1 2020-03-17
- SHA statement on the 2020 Budget 2020-03-12
- CROI 2020: Special session on COVID-19 2020-03-11
- 2 papers from Jean Hardiman Smith 2019-12-23
- Social Care 2019-12-17
- New laws to implement NHSE’s Long Term Plan 2019-10-16
- Our People: The Great Yorkshire Conversation Part one 2019-08-15
- Social Care Motion 2019-07-23
- Reclaim Social Care 2019-07-07
- Root And Branch Reform Of Social Care Needed 2019-03-21
- Mental health and wellbeing of NHS staff is essential for our health service to thrive, BMA warns 2019-02-21
- Caring for an ageing population – some Welsh perspectives 2019-01-27
- HCT Follow-up meeting 2018-12-05
- Social Care Conference 17th Nov in Birmingham 2018-10-31
- Consultation survey for the NHS England Integrated Care Provider Contracts – all answers are here 2018-09-24
- A Healthier Wales? Cymru Iachach? 2018-08-30
- DEVELOPING NARRATIVES 2018-08-19
- appeal against NHS England’s new Integrated Care Provider contract: by Jenny 2018-08-19
- Disabled people’s independence 2018-05-28
- SOCIAL CARE PRIORITIES & OPTIONS IN WALES 2018-05-26
- A new framework for best HIV care: BHIVA Standards of Care revised and updated (2018) 2018-04-26
- The labour of care: why we need an alternative political economy of social care 2018-04-26
- The crisis in social care is connected to the gendered inadequacy of labour law 2018-04-24
- HYPOTHECATION — MAGIC BULLET, PLACEBO OR SOMETHING WORSE? 2018-04-02
- Jeremy Hunt’s seven principles on adult social care reform: a new way forward or just rhetoric? 2018-03-22
- What can England learn from the German approach to long-term care funding? 2018-03-21
- Adult social care: is privatisation irreversible? 2018-02-15
- Joining up Health and Social Care 2018-01-30
- In the bleak midwinter… 2018-01-03
- When the US sneezes…health and social care futures in the UK 2017-12-14
- Give the Care Quality Commission more powers 2017-12-07
- Back to the future? Reclaiming the social after Grenfell Tower 2017-11-28
- The UK’s problem with long-term care: short-term thinking 2017-11-25
- The Failure of Competitive Tendering in Social Care 2017-10-30
- It’s time for Labour to take rights seriously 2017-09-21
- Policy Proposal for Social Care 2017-09-08
- NHS Continuing Healthcare funding: anomalous, irregular, and often baffling 2017-07-20
- Why the Dilnot cap is not the answer to the social care funding crisis 2017-06-26
- Social Care Funding: Understanding the reality behind the manifesto commitments 2017-06-03
- Policy Proposal for Social Care 2017-05-12
- Damning indictment of the Tory approach on the NHS/Social Care 2017-04-27
- PRIMARY CARE NETWORKS IN WALES 2017-03-12
- Imagining the future: Growing older together? 2017-03-04
- It’s not just about the money: 2017-03-03
- Social Care Meltdown 2016-11-29
- Market model for care of people with learning disabilities is inviable 2016-11-27
- Adults with learning disabilities on the rack 2016-11-10
- The future for social care 2016-10-04
- Learning disability and social care 2016-10-03
- You Need to Be Rich to Grow Old With Dignity in Britain today 2016-09-23
- Independent Living and Long Term Care 2016-08-21
- Developing a new policy for social (care) 2016-07-06
- Mental health and social work 2016-06-15
- Personal Budgets of the future 2016-06-09
- We need to talk about co-production? 2016-04-15
- Report on Health and Social Care Summit 18/3/16 2016-04-06
- The unsuccessful privatisation of social care 2016-04-05
- Savings, services & silver bullets 2016-03-31
- Britain’s care homes are being turned into complex financial instruments 2016-03-15
- Social care must not disable people with intellectual disabilities 2016-03-09
- Local Housing Allowance and supported housing 2016-03-02
- Austerity hampers personalisation in social care 2016-02-29
- Proof council cuts hit poorest areas hardest 2016-02-17
- Ending Tendering in Social Care 2016-02-16
- Heath Action Report 2016-02-09
- SOCIAL CARE REVIEW IN SCOTLAND 2016-01-15
- SOCIAL WORK IN WALES VALUED 2016-01-14
- Beyond austerity: the National Care Service and a new social settlement 2015-12-30
- Quality Care Commission report 2015-12-20
- Relationships – Thinking differently about developing the care system 2015-11-24
- Speech to National Voices Annual Members’ Conference 2015 2015-11-13
- Save our Social Care – Keep our Social Care 2015-11-08
- Patients Know Best 2015-10-27
- Who is looking forward to their first day in residential care? 2015-10-26
- Fit for the future 2015-10-12
- A holistic approach to health and care 2015-09-24
- New challenges or old for Labour health policy? 2015-09-15
- Social isolation and loneliness 2015-09-04
- Will Personal Health Budgets Destroy the NHS? 2015-09-02
- Plan B – Be Afraid 2015-08-07
- Giving social care the priority it deserves 2015-07-13
- Buurtzorg 2015-06-11
- What is the future for NHS reform? 2015-04-21
- A Better Plan for the NHS Health and Care 2015-04-11
- Better community care in Lewisham 2015-04-03
- Loneliness is bad for health 2015-03-18
- Five ways the government is failing NHS patients 2015-03-17
- Dealing with market failure 2015-03-16
- Integration: harnessing the power of co-production 2015-03-11
- Is integration the end for inclusion? 2015-02-10
- Care crisis and NHS crisis – time for a new response 2015-02-04
- What do we already know about Integrating Health and Social Care? 2015-02-03
- Key Challenges for Care 2014-12-14
- Social Care 2014-12-11
- Forced To Care 2014-12-01
- Fair deal for Care Workers 2014-11-19
- Short staff dilemma 2013-07-22
- Who Owns Care Homes? 2013-07-19
- Independent Commission on Whole Person Care 2013-04-27
- Andy Burnham’s plan for care, and questions that arise from it 2013-04-16
- Using the wealth of older people to ensure the affordability and quality of their health and social care 2013-03-12
- Using resident scrutiny to drive housing and care accountability 2013-02-24
- Reforming social care in England – half a step forward and several steps back? 2012-11-27
- Integrated Care for the Vulnerable: the technical, organisational and political challenges 2012-11-05
- Labour Party Policy for Disabled People 2012-09-28
- Labour should support personal health budgets 2012-07-26
- Bristol Festival of Health Ideas 2014-10-12
- Patient Power Can Make London Healthier 2014-09-11
- Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England 2014-09-06
- Privatisation and Care homes 2014-08-22
- Independent local commissioners, not CCTV 2014-07-13
- Healthier Scotland 2014-06-24
- Independent Living 2014-06-22
- Amendments to Labour Policies 2014-06-09
- Socialist Health Association Central Council Minutes 2014-06-09
- The Kingsmill Review: Taking Care 2014-05-19
- Social Work Action Network Conference report 2014-05-13
- The Independent Commission on Whole Person Care 2014-05-01
- Why don’t we do it? 2014-04-17
- The Advantages Of Care At Home vs Institutionalisation 2014-04-03
- Scotland – It’s Time to Care 2014-03-22
- What kind of care service do we want? 2014-03-20
- Direct Payments: 10 reasons for not using them 2014-02-05
- A New Kind of Doctor 9 The Necessity Of Community 1988-10-23
- Cameron’s hidden dementia taxes 2014-01-08
- Personal Health Budgets and the left – less heat more light please 2013-12-10
- The future of the NHS? Lessons from the market in social care in England 2013-11-18
- A One Nation Approach To Health And Social Care 2013-10-30
- Keep it Simple: whole person care 2013-10-23
- To Integrate Care, You`ll Need Evidence-Based Network Development 2013-09-11
- Social Care Principles 2013-08-31
- FUNDING FOR ADULT SOCIAL CARE 2013-08-06
- A Socialist Policy For Nurses 1967-09-14
- Place Of The Social Worker In The Health Service 1946-09-12
- The Work Of The Psychiatric Social Worker 1946-07-16
- Planning for the under fives 1940-09-12
- 21st Century NHS and Social Care – Delivering Integration 2013-06-06
- Integrated Care 2012-10-14
- Health and social care service funding 2012-06-06
- THE COMMODITY OF CARE 2013-07-18
- Care Bill 2013-05-26
- Frailty: a critical test in reversing a ‘Fragmented Illness Service’ to a ‘National Health Service”? 2013-05-26
- Policy Discussions on Health and Social Care 2013-06-23
- The New Care Covenant 2013-05-18
- ‘Whole-Person Care’ A One Nation approach to health and care for the 21st Century 2013-01-24
- Fabian ’13 Conference – ‘Next State’ ‘A New NHS: Repeal The Act, But Then What?’ 2013-01-14
- Protect the inheritance! 2013-05-11
- Health Service Integration 2013-03-17
- The Politics of Social Care 2012-07-09
- The Myth of Privatisation and Choice in Social Care 2013-04-25
- Zero Hours Contracts in the NHS and Social Care 2013-07-17
- 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