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Part of the JRF's A Better Life programme , this paper: explores the views of older people and the factors that help or hinder them; and proposes a model which demonstrates how their needs could...

This report by the Nuffield Trust reveals that funding for the Welsh NHS is being reduced in real terms whilst the demand pressures on acute and non-acute health services continue to rise. It predicts...

This report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is one of a suite of documents reporting on their end of life care thematic review. It found variable experience of people during the last phase of life,...

This new toolkit from the Northern Housing Consortium, a guide to engaging housing and health, demystifies the organisational structures and assurance processes of health and care and sets out six clear...

This Department of Health framework document, 'Integrated Care: Our Shared Commitment' was published in May 2013 and sets out how local areas can use existing structures such as Health and Wellbeing...

Summarises a survey of local authorities by the Local Government Information Unit about integration of end of life care in policy and practice, including the extent of involvement by housing services....

This presentation outlines a co-ordinated approach between the district council and voluntary sector to provide support to vulnerable older people in South Cambridgeshire

Influential architects, Levitt Bernstein - who contributed to the recent HAPPI report - have published a thoughtful paper on the future of housing design standards. Whilst not specific to housing for...

The King's Fund have published an interim report from the independent Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England. 'A new settlement for health and social care' argues for better alignment...