Stories on "Elderly Care"

Yesterday

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  • Hip replacements 'not quick enough'
  • One in five elderly patients with broken hips do not get surgery quickly enough, a new survey shows. Operations are meant to take place within 48 hours of an elderly person suffering a fall, but an annual audit found many waited longer.

Wednesday

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  • Govt accused of 'death tax' U-turn
  • Labour has accused health secretary Andrew Lansley of making a U-turn on plans to introduce a compulsory levy to pay for care for the elderly. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham was critical after Lansley revealed a commission on the future of care will consider a levy.

Tuesday

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  • Lansley launches social care commission
  • Health secretary Andrew Lansley has set out the terms of reference for the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support, which will look at how social care will be funded. Crucially, the commission leaves open the possibility of a compulsory levy to pay for care - Labour's favoured option. Andy Burnham has accused the Tories of "changing their tune".

Stories on "Labour: Policy "

Tuesday

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  • McFadden: Labour failed to support industry
  • Shadow business secretary Pat McFadden has said the Labour government was "late to the game" in adopting a more interventionist industrial policy, and warned that the coalition risked making the same mistake.

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  • Ed Miliband: Less well-off deserted Labour
  • Ed Miliband will publish an analysis for the Fabian study which shows Labour lost six voters from lower-income voters for every vote it lost among the professional middle classes. Mr Miliband says the study shows Labour needs to think more "New Labour adherents are comfortable with", the Guardian reports.

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  • Huhne: Labour 'irrelevant'
  • Liberal Democrat energy secretary Chris Huhne has claimed that Labour are "irrelevant" until they come up with a "credible" plan for the economy, accusing the party of pretending the budget deficit didn't exist.

Stories on "Gordon Brown MP"

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  • Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown set up
  • Ignoring accusations made in Tony Blair's memoirs, Gordon Brown has issued a statement announcing his "priorities for the future", which include setting up an official office to promote charitable projects involving him and his wife Sarah. He is to become convenor of the Global Campaign for Education and board member of Tim Berners Lee's World Wide Web Foundation as part of his new responsiblities. A statement said: "Each of these positions are pro bono and Mr Brown will not accept any remuneration."
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  • Blair book fastest selling memoir ever
  • Tony Blair's memoirs have become the fastest-selling autobiography of all time, according to the Independent. Politicians have been reacting to the publication of former prime minister's memoirs, with allies of Mr Blair's successor, Gordon Brown, describing criticism of him as "unfair".

Yesterday

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  • Tony Blair's memoirs published
  • Treasury minister Mark Hoban has said Tony Blair's memoirs reveal that the former prime minister agrees with the coalition's economic policy. He said: "Tony Blair believes the private sector should lead recovery - we agree with that."