This is now brought into sharp relief by the apparent inability of the coalition partners to agree on Dilnot’s proposals. After the report launch, we heard very positive and supportive responses from both Norman Lamb MP, the deputy prime minister’s political adviser, and the care minister, Lib Dem Paul Burstow. But this was not echoed by either the chancellor of the exchequer or the prime minister.
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Touchingly they became carers for one another
They were Shropshire childhood sweethearts
Tuesday 19th July 2011, 10:05AM BST.
For more than 70 years, childhood sweethearts Allen Clifford and his wife Rita were inseparable. Not even Allen being captured as a prisoner of war could keep them apart.
“Rita and I met as 16-year-olds at a church youth club before World War Two,” says Allen, now aged 88, from Telford.
“I was shot down over Germany and interned as a PoW. I subsequently escaped and Rita and I got engaged in 1945 and married in 1946.”
The couple raised a son and lived and worked all over England; Rita as a civil servant and primary teacher, Allen as a lecturer and later an education inspector.
NHP is to run the Southern Cross care homes alongside Dr Chai Patel
Southern Cross landlord NHP to rescue 249 care homes
The biggest landlord to Southern Cross Healthcare says it will rescue 249 care homes across the UK by creating its own operating business.
NHP is to run the Southern Cross care homes alongside Dr Chai Patel, the former boss of the famous Priory clinic.
Southern Cross Healthcare
The creation of the new business, which is yet to be named, helps to secure the future of more than half the Southern Cross care homes needing new operators.
Southern Cross, Britain’s biggest care home group, announced last week that it was beginning an “orderly closure” after its 80 landlords decided to take back their 752 care homes. The company had tried to cut its £250m rental bill because of falling occupancy rates and fees.
More delays on health and social care proposals!
Health and social care need equality
Dilnot proposals for social care divide the government, causing more delay to necessary reform, argues Peter Beresford
The proposals by Andrew Dilnot’s commission were described as ‘clever’, but now the coalition partners cannot agree on them. One of the words most often used about the proposals of the Dilnot commission was “clever”. As ever, social care, denuded of finance and political priority, was in search of some smart solution that would gloss over the essential reality of political life – that you get what you pay for.
