NHS must “learn from mistakes” after failure to organise woman’s 24 hour care, says ombudsman
England’s health ombudsman has urged integrated care boards to learn from mistakes to prevent families…
Category: Geriatric medicine, UK
The greying rainbow: We need inclusive care for older LGBTQ+ people
One morning I was sitting in with a GP in a small practice. An older…
David Oliver: England is still waiting for social care solutions
In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Vladimir says, “Well. What do we do?”—to which Estragon…
Scarlett McNally: Exercise can do wonders for social care
We need urgent radical solutions for the crisis in social care, to prevent the collapse…
England and Wales have seen rise in excess deaths in 2022
Deaths in England and Wales have exceeded the five year average in 2022, official figures…
Social care: Promise to propose reforms later this year is far from reassuring, says committee chair
The chair of an influential House of Lords committee has rebuked the government’s promise to…
David Oliver: Another false dawn for adult social care?
In his post-election Queen’s speech in December 2019, the UK prime minister Boris Johnson pledged…