Better Care Fund extended for 2019/20
The Better Care Fund, which provides financial support for councils and NHS organisations to jointly plan and deliver local services, along with helping people to leave hospital sooner to get the care they need at home, will be renewed for 2019 to 2020, ministers have confirmed. Pooled funding for the initiative will be over £6.4bn. The government […]
CQC report: Social care stable, despite ‘entire system at full stretch’
The annual State of Care report, published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has declared that quality of care in England has been maintained, although it does admit that the entire system is at full stretch. The report claims that he number of beds in nursing homes had “decreased across most of England” and carer […]
