More people will need social care in the future. Just to meet the expected growth in demand for social care from an ageing population, an additional £8.3bn per year could be needed by 2032/33.
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Sep
Sep
What are primary care networks?
Primary care networks (PCNs) are groups of GP practices that work together, and with other health and care providers, to deliver a wider range of services to the local population than might be possible within an individual practice.
While many GP practices have worked with others over many years – for example, in super-partnerships, federations, clusters and networks – the NHS Long Term Plan and the five-year framework for the GP contract, published in January 2019, formalised this way of working through an optional extension to the national GP contract. This extension is known as Directed Enhanced Services (DES) and provides funding specifically for services delivered through a primary care network1.
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Sep
Sep
Men in the most deprived areas in England live nearly 10 years fewer than those in the least deprived. It is clear working in partnership is the key to addressing men’s health – and councils are ideally placed to lead and foster that.
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Sep
Sep
Around 1 in 20 adults in the UK are estimated to be malnourished or at risk of malnutrition, and its impact can be profound. Malnutrition can increase the risk of illness and infection, increase […]
24
Sep
Sep
This guide presents an overview of local government powers in relation to planning and public health. It
sets out a holistic approach for thinking about how to create healthy neighbourhoods and a summary of the relevant powers and practices available to councils. This includes four case studies, exploring how councils are working to create healthy neighbourhoods in different ways. It seeks to build upon work such as the LGA and TCPA’s Developing Healthy Places from 2018 which sets out how councils can work with developers to deliver healthy places.
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Sep
Sep
The nation’s health challenges have reached historic proportions, and change is needed.
Led by an understanding that the boldest health reforms only come when there is a strong social and economic case for them, this commission has spent the last three years testing one simple idea: that better health is Britain’s greatest untapped route to prosperity.
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Sep
Sep
New research from the Public Law Project, authored by Jagna Olejniczak, has revealed the harmful impact of the DWP applying deductions to people’s benefits, which affects over half of households on Universal […]
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Sep
Sep
For millions of people, work in the 21st century has been characterised by persistent insecurity.
In the UK, one in five workers are in severely insecure work – facing a mix of low pay,
unpredictable hours, poor protections, and limited career progression. Insecurity is more likely to affect certain worker groups including women, people from ethnic minorities, disabled workers,
and young people.
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Sep
Sep
Local Housing Allowance (LHA) is the mechanism by which Housing Benefit (HB) and the Universal Credit housing element (UCHE) are calculated for private renters. The freezing of LHA from 2020 (and other reforms since 2010) meant support for housing costs within the benefits system decreased, causing
significant hardship among many of the people Citizens Advice supports. The single-year uprating in April2024 has not undone all of the impacts of recent LHA policies, and re-freezing LHA from LHA from April 2025 would cause additional hardship.
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Sep
Sep
123,000 households are impacted by the benefit cap across England, Wales and Scotland,1
although the Scottish government mitigates the cap as far as possible with its devolved powers.
The vast majority of those capped – 71 per cent – are lone parents with children. The cap affects households who receive universal credit (UC) or housing benefit and earn less than the equivalent of 16 hours at the national living wage a week – currently £793 a month. It limits the total benefits the household can receive to £1,835 a month outside London or £2,110 inside London, with lower limits for single adults.