The council is making great strides with our health and voluntary sector partners. But the barriers to innovation imposed centrally must be lifted.
The Comprehensive Spending Review has to be seen as a way to reset the narrative. Government need to focus on reform as a positive – not expenditure.
It’s time for a big investment to secure the long-term future of medical and social care free at the point of delivery.
Former Downing Street adviser Sean Worth notes that “the NHS is currently more productive than it’s ever been”.
“Using their own money would enable older people to take greater control over their care options.”
The Resolution Foundation’s new report is a serious piece of work, but its proposals to improve social care funding also bring political problems.
All teenagers should be taught at school about the structure of the British constitution – this would help improve the engagement and basis of knowledge for local government elections.
Previously the parks were neglected and the roads full of potholes. The Conservatives have started to turn the borough around.
Unless we find a way to win over those in their forties, thirties and younger, we will have an even bigger problem at the next election.
The Health and Social Care Secretary tells Peston that better, longer-term planning would help to raise care standards.
The Health and Social Care Secretary presents his seven principles for reforming the struggling system, conceding “we need to do better.”
Wanted: a grand bargain with voters, whereby some rises at the top end are traded off for others nearer the bottom.
Unless we change how we think, speak and apply lower taxes, the Labour cry of ‘tax cuts for the rich’ will remain a powerful slogan.
Other public services could learn that less money to spend means rethinking what you do.
At the same time as putting in more money, there must be a credible plan to spend it effectively – including improvements to how care is delivered.