Since my last post, the government’s document titled “Building Back Better: Our Plan for Health and Social Care” has now arrived and its...

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 asked them what steps they had taken to prepare for the new and shortly to be imposed social care reforms. After a long pause they answered that they hoped there might be a change of government at the forthcoming election and that the new scheme would then be dumped. For them it would involve employing around a third more social workers that

Many people are struggling to visit their loved-ones in care homes. It's great to see Valerie Manor, one of our local homes, drawing...

This isn't another Coronavirus update, but welcome news of the new rates of Funded Nursing Care (FNC) for residents of Nursing Homes. FNC...

A number of clients have contacted me over the past week because their relatives in hospital have been issued with a compulsory discharge...

We want to continue to be available to help you during the Coronavirus outbreak and have made some changes to our service to enable this....

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...