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UK social care

  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Sarah Woolnough
    The government has no time to lose if it wants to reform social care

    So far it has stumbled from one policy mis-step to another

    María Hergueta illustration of a man in a suit sitting on scaffolding next to a bucket and trowel in front of a sign reading Social Care
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    News in-depthHealth
    Palliative care ‘postcode lottery’ casts shadow over assisted dying debate

    Critics of proposed legislation argue for better end-of-life care ahead of vote on Friday

    Elderly woman lying on her bed in a hospital ward
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    Crackdown launched on child social care profiteering in England

    Companies will be forced to disclose finances in bid to curb ‘excessive profits’ bankrupting councils

    A young girl playing on a push swing at a public park
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    News in-depthNational Health Service
    The best medicine: could a shift to prevention help save the NHS?

    Grassroots projects in Surrey show positive impact of tackling health problems before they escalate

  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    UK public policy
    UK government pledges better treatment of people with autism and learning disabilities

    Long-awaited mental health bill will end use of prison cells for people experiencing severe mental illness

    Prisoners stand on a landing wing at Wandsworth Prison in London
  • Sunday, 3 November, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    NHS £25bn Budget boost puts pledge of ‘no cash without reform’ to test

    Funding commitments raise questions over whether the money can deliver needed long-term transformation

    Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves at University Hospital Coventry
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    UK local government finance
    The English county facing the biggest financial ‘black hole’

    Even in relatively prosperous Hampshire, the cost of providing social care is swallowing up funding for everything else

    People walking in Winchester High Street in Hampshire
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    ‘You’re on your own’: how rising care costs can wreck your retirement finances

    Growing demand and a lack of state funding means a heavy financial burden awaits families seeking care

    Illustration of an older woman with a walking stick, as a house, money and medication swirls around her.
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    The British state is not fit for Starmer’s purpose

    Labour ministers find that their newly active government stands on atrophying limbs

    Illustration of Keir Starmer holding a sword with the words ‘After Hobbes’ in the bottom right corner
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    ExplainerNational Health Service
    ‘Dire’ NHS report shows scale of Starmer’s turnaround challenge

    Crisis gripping health service in England is ‘laid bare’ in damning review by Lord Darzi

    Montage shows an NHS medic protesting against cuts in front of backdrops of anti-austerity banners, an image of the coronavirus, small change and a frail elderly person
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    National Health Service
    UK health minister says NHS needs to make ‘three big shifts’ to survive

    Wes Streeting tells FT Weekend festival that people ‘are not living well longer’

  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Adventurous InvestorDavid Stevenson
    Why I think these Reits deserve a second look

    Care home shortage and a stabilising residential market offer opportunities in rate-sensitive property funds

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  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    Making old age better is possible — and necessary

    The UK government needs to look abroad for inspiration

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a younger person’s hand with a butterfly on a string, reaching out to the hand of an elderly person
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Reader callout: are you concerned about social care costs?

    Care home costs have been rising steeply

  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Ootlin: A Memoir — a shocking true story of childhood in the care system

    Jenni Fagan’s searing autobiography recounts her ordeal of being shunted from place to place

    A young girl in a patterned sweater sits smiling on a sofa, her arm around a teddy almost as big as she is
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    Rachel Reeves and the limits of clever politics

    The chancellor’s scrapping of social care plans shows how short-term tactics continue to let down the UK

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Rachel Reeves struggling with a black hole
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Care Quality Commission
    NHS safety regulator found to have ‘significant internal failings’

    Care Quality Commission’s shortcomings are ‘hampering’ its ability to identify poor performance, says independent review

    Healthcare workers in a hospital
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    English councils call on Labour to delay cap on social care costs

    County Council Network warns of £30bn ‘black hole’ in funding for long-delayed reforms

  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    News in-depth
    Social care crisis needs cross-party solution, says Lib Dems’ Davey

    Lessons from other countries highlight importance of political consensus to fix chronic funding shortfall

    Montage of three coloured circles and a carer with a patient.
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    UK government spending
    Extra £38bn a year needed by 2029-30 to ‘revive’ NHS, says think-tank

    Parties ‘need to be honest’ about scale of investment needed to tackle health service crisis in England, warn analysts

    NHS ambulances outside a hospital in London
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    National Health Service
    Reroute funding to boost local NHS services, says opinion poll

    Public priorities at odds with government spending programme for community healthcare, data show

    Doctor and Patient in a consulting room at a GP surgery
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Assisted dying: an idea whose time has come

    The rights of the terminally ill to choose a better death need careful consideration

    Close up of son holding his mothers hands in hospital
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    Plan to reform social care has ‘gone awry’, say MPs

    Report finds 10-year road map to tackle funding and staffing crisis is failing to deliver

    A member of staff exercises with a resident at a residential care home in Redcar, UK
  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Starmer pledges free vote on legalising assisted dying in England

    Labour leader makes promise to campaigner Esther Rantzen for parliamentary debate in event he wins election

    Keir Starmer on visit to Harlow
  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
    Private care home closures in England raise concern over quality of provision

    Industry regulator has shut 804 for-profit facilities since 2011, study shows

    Caregiver helping an elderly woman with her walking aid outdoors
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