Health: Theresa May pressured to address social care issues
The pressures on health and social care this winter have been hard to ignore.
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NHS chiefs have warned that people must think “really carefully” about mixing this Christmas – Darshna Soni is in Notingham to find out how cautious people plan to be.
A woman has died after allegedly being refused admission to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Channel 4 News can reveal.
Spain is now considering relaxing some of its draconian lockdown measures, as official fatality rates begin to slow.
The husband of Elsie Sazuze, who has died from Covid-19, has told this programme he feels the government was too slow in its response to the crisis.
Staff looking after the sick and elderly in care homes have been praised by the Chief Medical Officer.
Dr Rachel Clarke, a palliative care specialist at an NHS hospice in Oxford, spoke to Channel 4 News.
All over the country people have been getting ready to clap their appreciation for carers.
As more and more people isolate themselves in towns and cities around the country – older people who are most at risk from the virus, are also most susceptible to the impact of social isolation.
First Southern Cross, then Allied Healthcare, now another major care home operator has gone into administration.
Care of the elderly, or social care, has rarely been so high up the political agenda. Indeed, it blighted the Conservatives’ manifesto launch at the last election. Now a new report seen exclusively by Channel 4 News reveals that in five years’ time, nine out of ten local authorities in England will not have enough care home places…
The Conservative manifesto’s planned reforms for social care funding would see thousands more having to contribute to the cost of their care – but they will not have to pay during their lifetime.
Sefton, on Merseyside, has one of the highest proportions of elderly residents of any English constituency. It’s a place where the local council spends more than half its budget on adult social care. So will the Government offer today be enough to fill their funding gap?
The pressures on health and social care this winter have been hard to ignore.
The Government’s Care Minister, David Mowat, has told MPs that we all have as much of a responsibility to care for our elderly parents as we do for our children.
Too many elderly people are being let down by the agencies meant to be helping them with basic care say their friends and relatives.