Tag Archives: Health and Social Care

Early diagnosis is fundamental to tackling the ‘national crisis’ of dementia in the UK. We need to move towards a system that targets appropriate outcomes and gives more freedom to commissioners and GPs

Flawed commissioning of healthcare is getting in the way of effectively tackling dementia, because it gives practitioners no incentive to diagnose the condition, a study claims today.

New analysis of the Autumn Statement by the Social Market Foundation reveals that public services look set to bear the brunt of £31bn of cuts after the next election.

George Osborne should use the Budget to bring forward the unidentified £15bn of austerity measures that have to be made in the next parliament, and spend the extra £50bn this would save over four years to stimulate the economy and cut unemployment through

Leader of the Opposition Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP has today delivered a speech to the Social Market Foundation to launch the SMF's latest publications, Markets in a State.

The Government has been told that much needed Dilnot proposals on funding long term care and support can only be paid for by raising taxes or cutting spending in the next Comprehensive Spending Review in 2013.

NHS reorganisation at best a waste of time, at worst a waste of money says think tank

The cuts that the Coalition Government will have to make to those departments whose budgets are not protected will be around 34% rather than the 25% that has previously been anticipated, says the Social Market Foundation.