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Fury as Boris Johnson axes key meeting to fix funding crisis as he yet again delays pledge to mend broken system

22/06/2021

This dithering and delay from the Prime Minister on important talks on social care reform is entirely unsurprising. We have been waiting almost two years to see the ‘clear plan’ for social care that he claimed to have prepared, and all we’ve heard about it is nine words in the […]

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Government failing people with autism and learning disabilities

11/06/2021

Yesterday, I spoke in a Westminster Hall Debate in Parliament on ‘Winterbourne View Hospital and the Transforming Care Programme’ On the 31st May 2011 a BBC Panorama documentary revealed appalling abuse of people with a learning disability and/or autism at the Winterbourne View Assessment and Treatment Unit (ATU). Footage of […]

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Matt Hancock accused of ‘rewriting history’ with denial of PPE shortages

10/06/2021

Matt Hancock was at best disingenuous in his evidence to the select committee today. He selectively used briefings, evidence and clinical advice to defend his record instead of admitting his abject failure to protect care homes in the pandemic. Even Matt Hancock knows he now categorically failed to put a […]

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Pressure on Hancock over failure to protect care home residents

01/06/2021

Last week, Matt Hancock claimed it ‘wasn’t possible’ to test all care home residents for Covid-19 before they were discharged from hospital. However, there were over 530,000 tests carried out in the UK by 20 April 2020. To compare, there were 25,000 people discharged from hospitals to care homes. By […]

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Patients were sent back to care homes without Covid test despite bosses’ plea

01/06/2021

Public Health England’s report, written in October, claims that only 1.6% of outbreaks in care homes had come from inpatients who had been discharged from hospital. The analysis in this report is based on people who were tested in hospital – when the precise problem was 25,000 elderly patients were […]

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Matt Hancock facing fresh questions over Covid in care homes

01/06/2021

Guidance from the Department of Health and Social Care at the start of the pandemic did not even mention the need to test care home residents before discharging them from hospital. This didn’t change until almost a month after the country went into national lockdown. This is despite clear evidence […]

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Ministers face calls to rein in investors who take profits at the expense of care home residents

28/05/2021

The Daily Mail have launched a campaign highlighting the problem of private equity firms buying up care homes. When Southern Cross collapsed in 2011 there were thousands of residents living in their care homes facing distress and anxiety. They were left in the dark about whether they would be able to […]

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Dominic Cummings accuses Matt Hancock of ‘criminal, disgraceful behaviour’ that hindered the Government’s pandemic response

26/05/2021

Dominic Cummings today gave evidence to the House of Commons on the Government’s pandemic response. Mr Cummings’ comments have revealed what we knew all along – that the Government’s ‘protective shield’ around care homes during this pandemic did not exist. Over 30,000 care home residents have died of coronavirus during […]

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Liz speaks at Health Foundation webinar

25/05/2021

Today I spoke at the Health Foundation’s webinar, “Can politicians ‘get social care done?’” It was a pleasure to discuss this issue alongside Charles Tallack, Sarah Neville, and Damian Green MP. Right now, our care system is not prepared for our ageing population. Average life expectancy has increased dramatically since […]

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Liz attends Dementia Action Week event

18/05/2021

Yesterday, I joined a peer support group for carers who are looking after loved ones with dementia. Caring for someone with dementia can be especially difficult. Support groups like this one are crucial for giving carers the support they need. We discussed the challenges that families who provide care are […]

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When WILL they show they care? Boris Johnson faces backlash after failing to honour his pledge to fix Britain’s broken social care system… and devoted just NINE WORDS to it in the Queen’s Speech

12/05/2021

Older people who helped make this country what it is, and who are now seeing their life savings wiped out to pay for care, deserve more than a paltry 9 words in the Queens Speech. Mr Johnson needs to wake up to the fact we cannot build a better country […]

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Liz responds to the Queens’ Speech

11/05/2021

After almost two years of broken promises on social care reform, the Government have once again failed to bring forward details of their plans on social care. Today’s Queens Speech announced that reform would be ‘brought forward’ – but gave no detail on what this would look like. Social […]