The government is using face-transforming software to encourage the public to have their say on its proposals for a radical reform of the care system. People using the online software application will be encouraged to comment on the government’s plans for a National Care Service and other changes to the care system. These include changes to [...]

As promised in Building Britain’s Future, this Green Paper sets out the Government’s proposals for ways to reform the care and support system for adults in England. We need to respond to the challenges that it will face in the future, to build a new National Care Service for everybody. During 2008, the Government ran [...]

The Big Care Debate On the subject of social care and providing feedback, the Big Care Debate continues. You can visit their website here, and there’s a new section of the site which enables you to upload a photo and see what you might look like when you get older. The Big Care Debate is, of course, in large [...]

The NHS will need to significantly increase its use of flexible staffing if a public sector spending cut leads to a significant reduction in headcount among permanent frontline staff, according to healthcare recruiter HCL. Consultants McKinsey and Company has advised the Department of Health that the NHS in England would need to cut its workforce by [...]

Our NHS, Our Future Everyone agrees that the NHS is going to have to save money – David Nicholson, for instance, speaks about saving £15-20bn between 2011 and 2014, largely through efficiency measures. The question isn’t about whether we need to make savings then, but how. Quality, of course, is one way to achieve this: [...]