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Tag Archives: Adult Social Care Services
Staff Turnover and Shortages in the Adult Social Care Sector (BBC News / Skills for Care / UKHCA)
Summary The UK Homecare Association, writing on behalf of care providers, has warned of the risk of rising staff shortages in adult social care, which could result in vulnerable people receiving poorer levels of care. It appears that over 900 … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care Sector, Adult Social Care Services, BBC Health News, Carers Forced to Leave Workforce, Experience of Adult Social Care Workforce, Future Care Workforce, Home Care Workforce, Homecare Deficit 2016: UK Home Care Association, Leavers and Staff Turnover Rates, Oxfordshire County Council, Pressures on Home Care Workforce, Provider Sustainability, Quality and Sustainability, Recruitment and Retention, Skills for Care, Social Care Workforce, Staff Retention, Staff Shortages, Staff Turnover, Staffing Level Indicators: Staff Turnover, Sustainability, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), UK Homecare Association, UK Homecare Association (UKHCA), UKHCA: UK Homecare Association, Worker Retention, Workforce Capacity Planning, Workforce Demographics, Workforce Issues, Workforce Issues (Feeling Undervalued), Workforce Planning, Workforce Planning and Development, Workforce Planning and Development Tool: Skills for Care, Workforce Retention Recruitment and Resilience, Workforce Satisfaction
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Recent Assessments of Adult Social Care in England (House of Commons Library / BBC News / Health Foundation)
Summary BBC News has recently run a mini-series of pieces investigating the state of social care and the inter-dependencies between performance in this sector and ongoing pressures within the NHS. Full Text Link Reference Triggle, N. (2017). 10 charts that … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care Funding (England), Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Adult Social Care Support Grant, Ageing Population, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), BBC Health News, Better Care Fund, Better Care Fund (BCF), Care England, Community Care, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Costs and Cost Pressures, Council Tax, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Performance Indicators, Discharge, Elderly People With Complex Health and Social Care Needs, Estimates of Social Care Funding Gap (Health Foundation), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Discharge Delays, House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee, House of Commons Health Select Committee (HSC), House of Commons Library, House of Commons Library Briefing Paper CBP-7903, House of Commons Library Briefing Paper CBP07903, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Interdependencies, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Government Finance Settlement (2017/2018), Local Health Care Reform, March 2017 Budget: Rescue Package for Social Care, New Models of Care, New Models of Care for Health and Social Care Systems, Perceptions of Health and Social Care, Perceptions of Social Care Services Nationally and Locally, Philip Hammond, Redesigning Local Healthcare Systems, Self-Funders, Self-Funders Cross-Subsidising Everyone Else, Self-Funders Cross-Subsidising Non-Savers, Self-Funders Subsidising the Social Care System, Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding Gap, Social Care Funding Shortfalls, Social Care Precept, State of Care Report, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Ten Charts Show What’s Wrong With Social Care (BBC News), Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Unacceptable Variations, United Kingdom Homecare Association (UKHCA), Upward Spending Pressures, Variations in Quality of Care, Variations in Social Care in England, Variations in Social Care Quality and Spending in England, What’s Wrong With Social Care in England
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NHS Recovery Plan: Recommendations For Clarity on Sustainability of Health [and Social Care] (BBC News / PAC)
Summary The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has recommended (quote): A clear and transparent recovery plan, targeting NHS bodies and health economies in severe financial difficulty, by March 2017. A report by July 2017 on whether NHS finances … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Assessment of Capacity, £22 Billion Efficiency Savings by 2020-21, BBC Health News, Best Value for Taxpayers, Committee of Public Accounts, Demand Management, Demand Versus Capacity Gaps, Economic Sustainability, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financial Sustainability of NHS Bodies, Hardnosed Reviews (Value For Money), Health and Care of Older People, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Leaders, House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Meg Hiller MP: Chair of Public Accounts Committee, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Improvement, NHS Sustainability, NHS Trust Financial Deficits, Patient Safety, Pressures in Social Care, Provider Sustainability, Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Quality and Sustainability, Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Prime Minster), Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England (2014-), State of the NHS (BBC News), STP Footprints, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Funding, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Use of Capital Budgets to Fund Day-to-Day Spending, Value for Money
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