Opinion – Care homes ban relatives who complain – BBC News

Worryingly, the BBC reports that hundreds of care homes are banning relatives from visiting elderly residents over complaints about quality of care.

Source: Care homes ban relatives who complain – BBC News

Sadly, this is just one of many distressing stories about the collapsing quality of care for the elderly in the UK.

Of course, austerity, botched reform and and an aging population are key factors in the appalling state of affairs.

Let me ask a simple open question:

How should Theresa May’s government reform care for the elderly in the UK?

Thoughts?

 

Reform the NHS – or watch it fade and die – Telegraph

The Telegraph argues that the NHS is on its last legs, and only by fundamentally reforming it and the way in which its most regular clients, the elderly and how they are looked after will it have any chance of survival at all.

Source: Reform the NHS – or watch it fade and die – Telegraph

As a specialist in delivering strategic change, I am convinced that the NHS is beyond reform. The best solution for the UK is for a new public healthcare modelled on the world’s best practice and orderly closure of the NHS. Unfortunately politicians seem afraid to admit failure to voters?

Thoughts?