NCF roundtable debates winter care pressures following Nuffield Trust report publication
The National Care Forum (NCF) has hosted a roundtable in conjunction with the Health Service Journal (HSJ) to bring together key strategic leaders across health and social care to create shared solutions to winter pressures. The roundtable centred on several key themes that NCF’s not-for-profit provider membership believes would improve system-wide partnership working to ensure […]
Care workforce realities highlighted in survey
Care services managers in the UK are experiencing an average staff vacancy rate of 17%, leading to a significant reduction in the amount of care available because there are not enough staff to run services at the level that people, hospitals and communities desperately need. That’s according to a survey conducted by the National Care […]
Hunt adds Social Care to Cabinet role
Erstwhile Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has expanded his role in Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet reshuffle, becoming Health and Social Care Secretary. Health experts hope that Hunt will now focus attention on social care, something that has been lacking in his post as Health Secretary for the past six years. Discussing the news, Jeremy Hughes, […]
Questions over care reforms following General Election
Vital social care reforms are set to be left on the back burner after the Conservative Party failed to win a majority, claim some experts. In response to the General Election results, Vic Raynor, executive director at the National Care Forum commented: “It is critical that the new Government recognises the significance that social care […]
