Richard Humphries

Elderly care: discharging our duties

3 January 2012 | Richard Humphries

The pressures facing the NHS from demographic change are building up all year round. Frail, elderly people deserve better from our health and social care services Read more

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Waiting for Dilnot

29 June 2011 | Richard Humphries

The Dilnot report on July 4 is likely to recommend a partnership between the individual and the state to meet the costs of long-term care. Now the coalition needs to turn words into action Read more

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Care for the community, by Richard Humphries

24 May 2010 | Richard Humphries

That the new government has included reform of social care funding in its priorities will be greeted with relief.  The political acrimony that preceded the campaign, and its absence as a key issue during the campaign itself, fuelled fears that the issue would be relegated to that infamous political equivalent of the Bermuda triangle – the long grass. Read more...

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Tough call on care costs, by Richard Humphries

27 February 2010 | Richard Humphries

This year’s general election could be the first in which social care is a key campaign issue. Everyone agrees that sorting out the wicked issue of paying for care needs consensus. But electioneering is about conflict, demanding that each party demonstrates loudly how different they and their policies are from each other.  So the collapse of private, cross-party talks aimed at establishing a political consensus, and the welter of misunderstanding and mutual recriminations that followed, should not come as a great surprise given the proximity of polling day.   Read more...

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