For us to be healthy, the building blocks of good health need to be in place in our communities – things like decent homes, good schools, and sound business practices. When these building blocks of health are weak or missing, our health can suffer; for example, when businesses promote unhealthy products like alcohol and junk food.
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What is NHS dentistry?
NHS dentistry provides treatment that is clinically necessary to keep mouths, teeth and gums healthy and free of pain and includes primary, community, secondary and tertiary dental services. In 2021/2022 the NHS contribution to dentistry was about £2.3 billion.
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This document is focused on rehabilitation and reablement provided alongside step-down
intermediate care – time-limited, short-term (typically no longer than 6 weeks) health and/or
social care provided to adults (aged 18 years or over) who need support after discharge from
acute inpatient settings and virtual wards to help them rehabilitate, re-able and recover.
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A decade of social security cuts, stagnating wages, and the erosion of public services has left millions of households living in preventable poverty, with little choice but to sink further into debt as their incomes fail to keep pace with the cost of living.
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This analysis projects the cost of meeting growing demand for adult social care in England and making some targeted improvements, up to 2032/33.
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Universal credit is simply inadequate to meet day to day living costs. This means despite temporary cost of living payments, many households face deep financial precarity, using loans to cover bills and, in some cases, going without heating or hot meals.
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More than 3 million working-age adults in the UK receive health-related benefits. The government has announced plans to first tighten, and then scrap entirely, the Work Capability Assessment – one of the two assessments used for determining eligibility to these benefits
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The CPI inflation figure for September (6.7 per cent) is the basis on which key working-age benefits are normally uprated in the following April. But with the public finances under real pressure, and prices expected to fall in the coming months, there are signs the Government is considering a departure from standard practice by under-indexing key working-age benefits in 2024-25.
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The first five years of life are crucial to a child’s development and to protecting them from future mental health conditions. With half of mental health conditions established by age 14, there is overwhelming evidence for providing support to parents and young children as early as possible. This means there is an important opportunity for the treatment and prevention of mental health conditions and the promotion of mental wellbeing and resilience.
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The existing policy approach to increasing State Pension age in the UK, alongside a lack of action to address the relatively high numbers of people out of the labour market due to ill health, risks pushing more people into hardship.