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social care
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The National Care Service is back. What should providers make of it?
Having worked in the Health and Social Care sector for 40 years, I have worked alongside social care providers long enough to have heard a National Care Service promised before. Andy Burnham first put the idea in a green paper in 2009, when he was Health Secretary. Seventeen years on, as Prime Minister, he stood…
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Somebody is finally asking. Let us not be quiet.
This one is time sensitive, so I will come straight to it. On 29th July, Baroness Casey launched the Big Conversation on Care, part of her Independent Commission on Adult Social Care. It asks the public what a future National Care Service should be: who it should support, what families can reasonably be expected to…