Building Back Better? Will the 2021 Social Care Reforms Actually Help?Since my last post, the government’s document titled “Building Back Better: Our Plan for Health and Social Care” has now arrived and its...
Are the Social Care proposals worth 1% on National Insurance?Back at the start of 2015 I was with some representatives of the Social Services team at a local authority that is not local to me. I...
Care Home Relatives VisitsMany people are struggling to visit their loved-ones in care homes. It's great to see Valerie Manor, one of our local homes, drawing...
Thank You NHS!This isn't another Coronavirus update, but welcome news of the new rates of Funded Nursing Care (FNC) for residents of Nursing Homes. FNC...
State Benefit RatesWe have now updated the rates for State benefits on our website to show those that apply from April 2020. There is no news on the NHS...
Finding Care when Care Homes are Closed due to CoronavirusA number of clients have contacted me over the past week because their relatives in hospital have been issued with a compulsory discharge...
Care Funding Advice During the Coronavirus OutbreakWe want to continue to be available to help you during the Coronavirus outbreak and have made some changes to our service to enable this....
Care and Coronavirus (Covid19)It's a tricky time to be making important decisions. Much of the country is in lockdown, financial markets have fallen and the NHS is...