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Joseph Rowntree Foundation points to ‘critical shift in expectations’ and says the public now budget for many routine servicesMost people in the UK now believe they will have to spend their own money on private healthcare for routine services such as dentistry, physiotherapy and counselling because they won’t be able to get them quickly on the NHS, pioneering new research has found.The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says its findings, based on extensive focus group analysis, is evidence that Britons have undergone a “critical shift in expectations” about the health service’s capacity to meet their needs. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/31/nhs-queues-mean-most-britons-expect-to-pay-for-healthcare-says-report

New York-born artist, 53, known for collaborating with Missy Elliott, was performing in Connecticut on FridayThe US rapper Fatman Scoop has died after he collapsed mid-performance during a free concert in Connecticut on Friday night, according to reports.The New York-born artist, whose real name is Isaac Freeman III, was headlining the so-called Green & Gold Party in Hamden, Connecticut, when he had what was described as a medical emergency. He was seen in a video posted on X to have collapsed behind the DJ booth after urging concertgoers to “make some noise”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/31/us-rapper-fatman-scoop-stage-collapse Author :

Labour accused of dropping pledges after it abandons cap on costs and prepares to scrap care worker training fund• Unless Labour wakes up on social care, tragedies will happenLabour has discarded its social care commitments and seems set to repeat the failure of previous governments to tackle the care crisis, the sector’s leaders have warned.Announcements by Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, that she would not cap costs for older people’s care and Stephen Kinnock, the care minister, that he would scrap a fund giving training for 37,000 care workers, have alarmed the social care sector. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/31/social-care-chiefs-labour-pledges-cap-costs

Easyfundraising has been accused by easyJet’s founder of misleading the public by adopting a ‘charity guise’ to market a profitable companyThe website Easyfundraising calls itself the UK’s “biggest charity shopping site”, raising millions of pounds for good causes across the country, from leading charities to friends’ groups to support local schools.It says it has raised more than £50m for good causes since it was launched in 2005, describing itself on Facebook as a “charity organisation”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/31/battle-over-easy-trademark-puts-fundraising-site-under-scrutiny-by-charity-commission Author : Jon Ungoed-Thomas Publish date : 2024-08-31 16:02:07 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.