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Last Friday was VE day, and we remembered those who bravely fought in Europe for our freedom. While many tributes were to those we lost, it’s important to remember that many of those who served are still with us, as...

Healthtech has already added significant value to healthcare systems around the world. Innovation to help tackle pressure on the NHS, improve diagnostics, and improve efficiency in our healthcare system has already been crucial in Britain, particularly in the last few...

Britain has a new ritual: at 8pm every Thursday we gather at our front doors, windows and balconies to clap for our carers and the incredible jobs they’re doing on the frontline. For us, it’s a symbolic attempt to recognise...

For those tackling the coronavirus on the front line, these past weeks and months will have been the most physically and emotionally challenging times of their lives. Yet for many of us, we know that the best thing we can...

Everyone knows social care desperately needs to change but there is little agreement of how. It comes as no surprise then that the Government’s Green Paper on the matter is several months late. Could informal carers, so neglected in today’s...

The Holiday Childcare Survey 2017, released today by the Family and Childcare Trust, contains few surprises. The bottom line is that parents across the country are facing exorbitant holiday club costs for their school-aged children this summer. The average weekly...

Social care currently has a means and a needs test – in other words, you have to be both really poor, and really ill, to get funding support from your council. The Conservative manifesto pledges to change the means testing...

Much of what we know about mental health comes from a clinical setting. When health commissioners, policy-makers and practitioners make decisions on the nation’s healthcare, most of the information at their disposal has been gathered from hospitals, GP surgeries, satisfaction...

In 2011, Demos warned that personal budgets are a vehicle for personalisation – one of many – and not an end in themselves. We warned that the Government’s narrow focus on personal budgets as a proxy for personalised services could...