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Funding social care is a collective responsibility | Letters

Roger Steer says the solution is to adopt the NHS model, Janet Dubé suggests an audit, while Sally Byers says language that respects people living with dementia is crucial Polly Toynbee asks a seemingly difficult question and discusses a knotty issue ( In Liverpool I saw the tough choices Louise Casey faces on social care – starting with who will pay?, 13 October ). Her question is framed as an issue of individual choice inviting the response: “Not me if I can avoid it.” The responsible answer is, of course, all of us – collectively. It is an uninsurable risk that can only be solved equitably and efficiently as a collective solution. By entangling the issue of funding with provision of services, moral clarity is lost. Issues of matching funding distort and influence the level of care

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Jim Churm obituary

My father, Jim Churm, who has died aged 102, was a D-day veteran and former Royal Navy medic; he later enjoyed a long career in nursing and physiotherapy. Jim joined the navy as an 18-year-old during the second world war and trained as a sick berth attendant before being assigned to landing craft operations. On D-day, 6 June 1944, he sailed from Newhaven in East Sussex as the leading medic aboard a landing craft involved in the assault on Sword Beach, one of the five main landing areas along the Normandy coast during the allied invasion of France. Continue reading...

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