The Liberal Democrats have criticised the long-term funding system for personal care for the elderly after provisional figures released by the NHS Information Centre revealed elderly people paid £1.6bn in charges last year.
Health spokesman Norman Lamb said: "The government has been dithering over reform for too long. We need radical reform of the system now."
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Gateshead Care Partnership brought together the local council, NHS trusts and local GPs to improve the way organisations worked together, and won the 2018 HSJ Award for Improved partnerships between health and local government
NHS England has been told to support areas which are failing to deal with a backlog of reviews into the deaths of learning disability patients, according to a new report.
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