John Puntis explores a recent book by Christopher Thomas. ‘The Five Health Frontiers. A New Radical Blueprint’. Pluto Press, London, 2022
https://endsocialcaredisgrace.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/The-Five-Health-Frontiers-book-review-1.docx
Their argument about being unaware of asymptomatic transmission does not hold water.
Here is a Guardian piece describing well the way in which the PM and Chancellor are spinning their decisions to make it look as though social care is fixed. We know it is not.
NaCSILS does not focus on children. But this is such a disturbing story, we felt we had to share it.
A welcome breath of fresh air from Labour. It also sounds as though Scottish Labour wants to merge social care and the NHS, a move that NaCSILS sees as dangerous. We are keen to debate these ideas.
Tens of thousands of disabled people across the country are having debt collection action taken against them every year by their local authorities over unpaid care charges, information secured by disabled campaigners has revealed. From Disability News Service
These conclusions are very similar to the NaCSILS programme. There are some useful thoughts on how the extra finance could be raised.
https://wbg.org.uk/analysis/reports/universal-quality-social-care/
The Morning Star previewed the event
See what the Disability New Service have to say
Northumbria hospital Trusts working with the Local Authority – interesting!
