Care Funding News

Older and disabled people could be given the chance to live more independently thanks to a pioneering interactive care project. The MultiMemoHome scheme, which is a collaboration between researchers at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, uses... More »

Older and disabled people could be given the chance to live more independently thanks to a pioneering interactive care project. The MultiMemoHome scheme, which is a collaboration between researchers at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, uses... More »

One of the key components needed for the full-scale reform of adult social care and how it is paid for is contained in Government announcements regarding the implemenation of Dilnot Commission report, according to the Association of Directors of Adul... More »

Prime minister David Cameron has referred to plans to set a maximum limit on the amount older people will have to pay for long-term care as the biggest move to protect inheritances for two decades. The social care reforms will make sure pensioners ... More »

Long-term care costs in old age will be capped at £75,000 as part of a £1 billion initiative, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced. He heralded the reforms as "historic", pointing out they will save thousands of people from having... More »

A patients' rights group is being set up to check that social care and welfare standards are being met in central Bedfordshire. Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire (HCB) will survey patients and social care users from the spring as part of nationwide r... More »

A new report published by employment firm Reed has said the jobs market in the UK has grown over the past 12 months - with some of the biggest increases in growth taking place in the country's social care sector. According to the report, job vacanci... More »

A 12-week consultation has been launched by the UK's Care and Support Minister, Norman Lamb, to establish a full set of NICE quality standards and guidance for social care. Care users, their families and carers, service commissioners, care providers... More »

Five new care homes are to be developed in Suffolk, with each site catering for between 60 and 80 people, it has emerged. Property fund manager Schroders made the announcement after an agreement was reached between the Schroder UK Property Fund (SPF... More »

A new report published by the King's Fund think tank has claimed that half of Government spending in 50 years' time could go towards health and social care. According to analysis carried out by a team of experts at the think tank, spending on provid... More »