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Social care funding gap
Our updated analysis explores what it would cost to fix the crisis in adult social care in England, including stabilising the current system, improving access to care and providing social protection against care costs.
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At the start of the pandemic, NHS earnings had fallen in real terms by over £600 per employee over the last decade
Health Foundation response to the government's evidence to the NHS review body of a proposed 1% pay...
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What next for the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme?
The UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme has made an impressive start, with around 30% of the...
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Why the market matters in adult social care (and what we can do about it)
There are endemic failures in the adult social care market. In this blog we explain why reform is...
Press release
Workforce strategy urgently needed
Our response to Health and Social Care Select Committee published evidence showing that an...
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Years of underinvestment made the UK’s death toll so much higher than it need have been
The scene for the current crisis was set long before the virus arrived. Anita Charlesworth explores...
Invitation to tender
ITT: Social care model
We are looking to commission a supplier to develop a model (or models) to project future adult...
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Staff shortages left the NHS vulnerable to the COVID-19 storm
We are seeing the consequences of years of workforce planning failures, says Anita Charlesworth.
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How is COVID-19 impacting people working in adult social care?
We bring together emerging evidence of the pandemic’s impact so far on a workforce that has for too...
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