Analysis published by the Health Foundation’s REAL Centre has found that over the decade before the pandemic, the UK spent around a fifth (18%) less on average than the EU14 on day-to-day health care costs (per person living in the country).
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The State of Caring Survey is the UK’s most comprehensive research into the lives and experience of carers
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More than 1 in 5 (22%) older people are already reducing or stopping spending on medications or specialist foods or expect to do so in the coming months, and 1 in 7 (15%) are skipping meals or expect to do so over the same period
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Fazilet Hadi, Head of Policy at Disability Rights UK, considers how Disabled people’s organisations can harness their power and expertise to improve how health and care services work with Disabled people.
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The mismatch between the homes we have, and the homes we need, is stark.
Currently, 91% of homes do not provide even the most basic accessibility features. The problem is that houses are usually designed with only the first occupants in mind, not the multitude of people who will call it home across its lifespan.
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Find out about the problems homeowners with spray foam insulation are having when remortgaging or selling their properties and what they can do about it.
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I-SPHERE have published the first report of our Homelessness and Black and Minoritised Ethnic Communities in the UK Knowledge and Capacity Building Programme. Funded by the Oak Foundation this research programme aims to support a step change in knowledge and capacity.
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Who is seeking debt advice: a National Debtline perspective
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Installation of pre-payment meters (PPMs) increasingly represents disconnection by the backdoor, and transfer of a smart meter to a PPM setting is likely to present an underhand way of disconnecting people in fuel poverty.
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Single parents, people with disabilities and those facing terminal illness are among groups at most risk of needing to use credit to cover essential costs to stay alive this winter.