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Burstow loses care minister’s job

Blog updated 4.50pm So the Twitter speculation of this morning (see below) was right and Paul Burstow has departed from his role as care services minister and from the government as a whole. In a valedictory statement, he describes his sadness in leaving his “dream job”, reflecting his long years campaigning on social care before [...]

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What would Labour do with social care?

I’ve been pretty neglectful of what Her Majesty’s Opposition has been saying about adult social care, mainly because we are three years from a general election and, to state the obvious, the rhetoric of opposition tells you little about what an incoming government would do. However, I’ve just been sent a speech that Labour’s shadow [...]

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Stage set for pitched battle over Scottish assisted suicide law

The stage is set for a pitched battle tomorrow in the Scottish Parliament over plans to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland.Last week a committee of MSPs said there was no grounds for changing the law on assisted suicide. However, yesterday Margo MacDonald, who introduced the proposed law into the Scottish Parliament, said claimed nearly eight [...]

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#ncas2010: Social workers conspicious by absence

Sometimes it’s easier to see things from a distance. That’s why blogger cb at Fighting Monsters has picked up on the fact that there are very few social workers at this week’s National Children’s and Adults Service Conference without attending, while I spent 24 hours there and failed to notice this.Sure, I was rummaging in [...]

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White Paper signals privatisation of the NHS

Following on from Mithran’s blog post yesterday about growing pessimism about the health White Paper, The Guardian has posted a comment piece that the paper is little more than a wholesale privatisation of the NHS.Seamus Milne warns that if the plans are taken to their logical conclusion, by 2015 the NHS will be little more [...]

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More coalition policy speculation and dementia research into taste

The only problem with the coalition business seems to be that no-one is quite sure what’s going to happen, which in itself is exciting but is also leading to endless speculation. Mind sum up the prospects for mental health policy under the coalition government as, “We’ll have to wait and see.” I’m just as guilty [...]

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