Tag Archives: Social Care

NHS England Chief offers local government leaders radical new health and social care integration option
High-need individuals are to be offered the ability to control their own blended NHS and community care, in partnership with voluntary sector. The NHS will offer local councils across England a radical new option in which individuals will be able to control their combined health […]

Big rise in UK food poverty sees 20m meals given out in last year, says charities
Food banks and food aid charities gave more than 20 million meals last year to people in the UK who could not afford to feed themselves – a 54 per cent increase on the previous 12 months, according to a report published by Oxfam, Church […]

WHEC: Report on Women’s Mental Health
The Women’s Health and Equality Consortium has published a report on women’s mental health, entitled ‘I am more than one thing: a guiding paper by Imkaan, Positively UK and Rape Crisis England and Wales’. This report builds on existing evidence to highlight women’s experiences of […]

Trussell Trust sees use of its foodbanks ‘almost triple’ in a year
he number of people using the Trussell Trust’s foodbanks rose from 347,000 to 913,000 in a single year, the charity said today. The figures are for those receiving three days’ food in the year to March 2013, compared to the year to March 2014, the […]