Dementia care reform won’t wait

Dementia is the biggest health and social care challenge of our time but the current system is not set up to meet the needs of almost 1 million people living with dementia in the UK .

We expect an additional 106,000 people with dementia to be living in residential and nursing homes by 2040 so dementia must be at the centre of the commission’s planning.

It is ironic that the government is trying to speed up the trials in rape cases.

The profession has been telling politicians that the low rate of remuneration will lead to a shortage of lawyers in all areas of crime.

The crisis is attributable to this as well as the increasing demands on lawyers in these cases, with tens of thousands in the queue.