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Norman Lamb unveils fresh plans to integrate health and social care staff 2013-05-15
Announcing a plan to integrate health and social care by 2018, Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb described elderly care in the country as “dysfunctional” and “getting worse” as the population ages. He said co-ordination between health and social care will ...
(Nursing Times)
- Norman Lamb MP writes… Integrating Care – Joined up thinking in the NHS
- Social care 'at breaking point' as sweeping changes planned
- Lamb links integration to community budgets
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Lamb issues plan to integrate health and social care for all by 2018 2013-05-14
All disabled and older people would enjoy integrated care by 2018 under plans to overcome the health and social care divide, announced today by care services minister Norman Lamb. Lamb said he wanted to bring to an end service users' experience of ...
(Communitycare.co.uk)
- Health and social care 'join up' plans unveiled
- Lamb invites bids from 'integration pioneers'
- Elderly population 'pushing NHS to brink of collapse', claims Lib Dem health ...
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More than 200 student paramedics awaiting completion of training at ambulance ... 2013-05-11
Norman Lamb, North Norfolk MP and health minister, said he had spoken to the trust several times about the student paramedic situation. “I think it is scandalous how they have been treated and imagine the impact on morale of those waiting for training.
(Norfolk Eastern Daily Press)
- Suffolk/Essex: £17m boost sees ambulance fleet updated
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Sheep thief rustled by lamb's love for owner 2013-05-11
The managing director of the Irish operation of Harvey Norman said yesterday he expects the business will narrow its losses further in 2013. Drilling 'has 10,000 jobs potential'. Ireland's burgeoning offshore oil and gas industry has the potential to ...
(Irish Examiner)
- Pet lamb 'blaaabbed' on rustler
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Care reform spurs fear for elderly in private homes 2013-05-10
A much-vaunted cap on the costs people face in old age risks leaving those in private care homes out of pocket, it emerged as the government published the bill to implement the recommendations of the Dilnot Commission. Norman Lamb, Liberal Democrat ...
(Financial Times)
- New care cap 'far too high to help'
- Efforts Afoot to End NHS 'Cover-up Culture': Norman Lamb
- New help on elderly care for pensioners
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NHS: Hospitals face unlimited fines if they fiddle their death statistics 2013-05-10
Care minister Norman Lamb said the unlimited fines would be a legacy of the campaign fought by those who suffered “horrors” at Stafford Hospital. Up to 1,200 patients died from neglect and abuse there. Stafford Borough Council has accused hospital ...
(Mirror.co.uk)
- NHS 'cover-up culture' to be tackled with fines
- Hospitals face unlimited fines if they fiddle death rate figures under new ...
- Care bill extends CQC's powers
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CQC given care home finance powers 2013-05-08
“Everyone who receives care and support wants to know they will be protected if the company in charge of their care goes bust,” said Care and Support Minister, Norman Lamb. “The fear and upset that the Southern Cross collapse caused to care home ...
(Nursing in Practice)
- New warning system for care home failures announced - Zenopa
- Financial pressures on care homes sees increasing numbers being forced to close
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Ambulance Watch: 999 chiefs leave hundreds of front-line posts vacant for ... 2013-05-07
Health minister and north Norfolk MP Norman Lamb said today: “For a significant period of last year they had a recruitment freeze which I find quite extraordinary. “We know over the same period they had massive use of private ambulances at an enormous ...
(Norfolk Eastern Daily Press)
- Ambulance trust criticised over shortages of frontline staff
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Government aims to avoid Southern Cross repeat with 'tough series of checks ... 2013-05-04
Today Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat Care and Support Minister, announced that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will be able to monitor the largest providers' financial health. There will be, he said, a "tough series of checks" on the companies ...
(The Independent)
- Inspectors to study care home finances in bid to prevent sudden closures
- Care homes face new financial checks to protect pensioners
- Care home companies face tougher financial checks
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