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Tag Archives: Community Care Assessments
Healthy Caring Guide (NHS England / PHE / Age UK / Carers Trust / Carers UK)
Summary NHS England, Public Health England (PHE) and partners (Age UK, the Carers Trust and Carers UK) have released a healthy caring guide, which provides practical advice and information to carers (particularly older carers). Full Text Link Reference New guide gives … Continue reading
Posted in Age UK, Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS England, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Public Health England, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Adult Carers in England: Quality of Life, Adult Social Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Population Carer Support, Burden on Caregivers, Care in an Ageing Society, Caregiver Assessments, Caregiver Burden, Caregivers, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Awareness, Carer Experience, Carer Fatigue, Carer Isolation, Carer Organisations, Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Carer's Needs, Carer’s Perspective, Carers Strategy, Carers Trust, Carers UK Adviceline, Carers' Assessments, Carers’ Benefits, Carers’ Health and Wellbeing, Caring and Family Finances, Caring into Later Life, CCG Improvement and Assurance Framework for 2016-17, Community Care Assessments, Community-Based Services, Coping With Stress, Emily Holzhausen: Director of Policy and Public Affairs at Carers UK, Family Caregivers, Family Carers, Healthy Caring Guide, Impact of Caring on Carers, Improving Lives of Carers, Informal Caregiving, Informal Carers, Information Needs of Carers, Information Technology, Maintaining Relationships, Mental Health Needs of Carers, Mobile Technology, Needs of Carers, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, PHE: Public Health England, Public Health England (PHE), Social Media, Support for Carers, Sustainable Caring, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Use of Social Media, Valuing Carers
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Call to Ban 15-Minute Home Care Visits (BBC News / Leonard Cheshire Disability)
Summary The charity Leonard Cheshire Disability has discovered that short care visits to elderly and disabled people are becoming more common. Their report shows that 60% of councils in England use 15-minute visits, which are more often than not too short to provide adequate … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 15-Minute Home Care Visits, Adult Social Care, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, BBC Health News, Care Bill 2013-14, Care Bill [HL] 2013-14: Progress of the Bill - Timeline., Care Funding, Commissioning of Domiciliary Care, Community Care Assessments, ComRes Polling, Domiciliary Care, English Local Authorities, Former Minister of Care Services Norman Lamb, Funding of Care and Support, Holistic Care Assessments, Home Care, Home Care Packages (HCP), Home Care Standards, Home Care Support, Home Care Workers, Local Authorities, Local Government Association: LGA, Norman Lamb (Former Care Minister), Service User Experience, Short Care Visits, Social Care Assessments, Social Care Funding, UK Homecare Association, UKHCA: UK Homecare Association, Unison, User Experience
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Benefits of Integrated Care: Findings from 16 Integrated Care Pilots in England (RAND Europe)
Summary This RAND Europe evaluation report summarises the results from 16 different pilot projects sponsored by the Department of Health to explore ways of integrating patient care from different local providers. Local decision-makers should not underestimate the challenges involved in … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, Systematic Reviews, UK
Tagged Benefits of Integrated Care, Co-Production, Commissioning Environment, Community Budgets, Community Care Assessments, Continuity of Care, Cooperation, Cost-Effectiveness in Health Care, Delayed Transfers of Care, Department of Health, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Early Supported Discharge (ESD), Early Supported Discharge Teams, Ernst & Young LLP, ESD: Early Supported Discharge, Evaluation of UK Integrated Care Pilots, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Care Organization and Administration, Health Care Services Capacity, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Use and Costs, Housing, ICP: Integrated Care Pilots, Integrated Care and Support: Our Shared Commitment, Integrated Care Pathway, Integrated Care Pilots (ICP), Integrated Care Pilots in England, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Discharge Process, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integrated Teams, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Program Evaluation, RAND Europe, University of Cambridge
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Integrated Care and Support: Landmark Shared Commitment (Department of Health)
Summary This Department of Health framework document on the integration of health and social care establishes the agreement to create “joined-up” care. It explains how multi-agency working in local areas can use existing structures to bring together Local Authorities, the … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Assistive Technology, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), Housing, In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, NICE Guidelines, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Avoidable Admissions, Care Integration, Care Planning, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Co-Production, Commissioning Environment, Community Budgets, Community Care Assessments, Continuity of Care, Cooperation, Delayed Transfers of Care, Department of Health, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Early Supported Discharge (ESD), Early Supported Discharge Teams, ESD: Early Supported Discharge, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Health Select Committee on Integrated Care and Support, HEE: Health Education England, Hospital Discharge, Housing, Housing and Care for Older People, Housing and Health Partnerships, Housing Associations, Housing Policy, Improving Public Health, Integrated Care and Support: Our Shared Commitment, Integrated Care Pathway, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Discharge Process, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integrated Teams, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration Transfomration Fund, Joint Commissioning, LGA: Local Government Association, Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb: Former Health Minister in Coalition Government, Local Authorities, Local Authorities (LAs), Local Authorities with Adult Social Care Responsibilities (LA ASCRs), Local Empowerment, Local Government Association, Local Government Association: LGA, Managerial, Mind the Gap, Monitor, National Collaboration for Integrated Care and Support, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Voices, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS Improving Quality, Patient Discharge, Personalised Care Planning, PHE: Public Health England, Policy, Post-Discharge Support, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Reablement, Reablement Services, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement (RRR), Rehabilitation, Retirement Housing, Service Continuity, Service Integration, Social Care Assessments, Social Care Institute for Excellence, Social Housing, Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), TLAP: Think Local Act Personal, Year of Care Payment Approach
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Shared Commitment Between NHS and Local Government Leaders to Integrate Care (BBC News)
Summary Figures from Age UK, based on analysis of government statistics, show that elderly hospital patients face increasing delays for social care help before they can be discharged. Hospital patients awaiting discharge typically wait for more than 30 days on average … Continue reading
Posted in Age UK, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Avoidable Admissions, BBC Health News, Care Integration, Care Planning, Community Care Assessments, Continuity of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care, Department of Health, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Discharge, Integrated Care Pathway, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Discharge Process, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integrated Teams, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, LGA: Local Government Association, Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb: Former Health Minister in Coalition Government, Local Government Association, Mind the Gap, Patient Discharge, Personalised Care Planning, Post-Discharge Support, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Service Continuity, Service Integration, Social Care Assessments, Torbay, Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust, Torbay Care Trust, Torbay Dementia Leadership Group
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Elderly Suffer from Poor Home Care (BBC News / CQC)
Summary The Care Quality Commission found evidence of rushed appointments and poor care assessments in its review of 250 home care services. A quarter of home-care services provided to the elderly in England appear to be failing to meet the necessary quality and … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Adult Social Care Survey, BBC Health News, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Community Care Assessments, CQC Review of Home Care Services 2013, Domiciliary Care, Home Care, Home Care Inspection Programme (CQC), Home Care Services: CQC Survey, Home Care Standards, Home Care Support, Home Help Services, Social Care Assessments
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Audit Commission Indicates Potential £300m Social Care Assessments Savings (BBC News / Audit Commission)
Summary English councils performed approximately 1.8m assessments of people’s needs and reviews of their care during 2010/11, at a cost of about £2.2bn; which is around 12% of gross spending on adult social care. Councils in England could save £312m annually on … Continue reading
Posted in ADASS, BBC News, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, National Audit Office, Personalisation, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, Assessing and Reviewing Needs, Assessment, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Audit Commission, BBC News, Care Pathway Model, Community Care, Community Care Assessments, Hertfordshire County Council, Needs Assessments, Personalisation of Social Care, Personalised Care, Personalised Care Planning, Redesigning Care Pathways, Social Care, Social Care Assessments, Spending on Assessments and Reviews, Stockport Council
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