With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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Social care in crisis
The government is ignoring key advice on further deterioration in social care provision, writes RUTH HUNT
Lynda Yu, who has complex care needs
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
A COMMITTEE tasked with advising the government on the crisis in social care has said in its annual report that the situation has deteriorated further and its recommendations have been ignored.
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) reported that there are around 70,000 more vacancies in social care now than before the pandemic.
This makes the overall vacancy rate 11.1 per cent, with the report indicating that much is due to Brexit and the ending of free movement.
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