A delegation of psychiatrists met Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan at Thiruvananthapuram and submitted a memorandum seeking reforms in mental healthcare delivery, infrastructure and governance
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged on Wednesday to take difficult decisions to overhaul England’s adult social care system, saying he wanted to work with other parties to end unfair high costs for users that he likened to US healthcare. Successive governments have failed to reform adult social care, for which families can pay hundreds of thousands of pounds, after previous proposals were defeated by opposition parties who dubbed them a “dementia tax” or “death tax”. Burnham did not...