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Healthcare cannot be sold like an iPad

It is time to reject the market ideology that has plagued the NHS for more than 30 years and wasted billions

Guardian Professional,

Evidence from other parts of the world suggests healthcare cannot be marketed and run like PC World or Dixons.

NHS England is embarking on its single biggest outsourcing of services so far by inviting bids for a contract that will be worth between £700m and £1.1bn. The sale of NHS services is fragmenting the health service and having a negative impact on patient experience.

Carers’ fury as ‘lifeline’ day centres face the axe

These are not leisure centres. They are a vital lifeline

Northfields in Moston and Eric Hobin, in Charlestown, will close from next year – a move now approved by the council

Two Manchester day centres are to shut in a bid to save £1.7m despite a backlash from campaigners.

Northfields in Moston and Eric Hobin, in Charlestown , will close from next year.

Sex and dementia: Aging population set for 'rape case timebomb' in nursing homes in USA

This problem will come to the UK

By James Nye

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Sex among dementia sufferers from the Baby Boomer generation is set to become a legal minefield for nursing homes and bring potential heart-break to their healthy spouses and children.

Currently, there approximately five million people in the U.S. who have Alzheimer’s and with 40 million people in the U.S. now currently aged over 65 – that number is expected to rise over the next decade to 7.1 million.

With those numbers only due to go up, the $120 billion nursing home industry expects massive financial growth – but as the Baby Boomers age, their carers and families will surely be faced with difficult legal, ethical and moral questions.

There approximately five million people in the U.S. who have Alzheimer’s and with 40 million people in the U.S. now currently aged over 65 – that number is expected to rise over the next decade to 7.1 million