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Tag Archives: Health and Social Care
Residential Care: Exploring the Options, the Costs and the Alternatives (BBC News)
Summary Following a recent review of Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections, which revealed that perhaps one in four care homes may to be failing in terms of safety and the adequacy of care provided, a BBC News item provides a … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Northern Ireland, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Provision (CQC), Adult Social Care Services, Advice for Family and Friends, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Australia, BBC Health News, BBC's State of Care Theme, BBC’s Care Calculator, Care Home Inspections, Care Homes, Care in People's Own Homes, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Extra Care Apartments, Extra Care Housing, Extra-Care Sheltered Housing, Geographical Variations, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care Services, High-Intensity Care in Own Home, Home and Community Care Services, Home Care, Home Care Services, Home Care Support, Home Share and Befriending, Home-Share Arrangements, Housing and Extra Care, Information About Care and Support Options, Integration of Health and Social Care, Live-in Carers, Maintaining Independence, New Zealand, Nursing and Residential Care Homes, Nursing Homes, Nutrition and Hydration, Patient Safety, Residential Homes, Retirement Villages, Safe and Compassionate Care, Self-Funders, Shared Lives and Supported Living Schemes, Shared Lives Model, Shared Lives Plus: UK, Sheltered Housing, Sheltered Housing Schemes, South Africa, State of Care Theme (BBC News), Variations in Quality of Care
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Getting the Dementia Care Pathway Right (NHS RightCare / NHS England)
Summary NHS RightCare has produced a scenario which throws into contrast an optimal dementia care pathway as distinct from the possibly more common “sub-optimal” pathway alternative(s). Costings for an ideal pathway are presented, compared with those for an example sub-optimal … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountable Care Systems (ACSs), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Berkshire West (Reading Newbury and Wokingham), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Blackpool and Fylde Coast (Lancashire and South Cumbria Later), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Buckinghamshire, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Dorset, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Frimley Health (Slough Surrey Heath and Aldershot), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Luton (Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Nottinghamshire (Greater Nottingham and Rushcliffe), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw (Barnsley Bassetlew Doncaster Rotherham and Sheffield), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): West North and East Cumbria Plus Northumberland, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Avoidable Harm, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions Enhanced Service (ES), Care Closer to Home, Care in the Community, Community Care, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Care for People With Dementia, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Costs and Cost Pressures, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Dementia Advisor Services, Dementia Advisors, Dementia Care Pathways, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Accountable Care Systems, Getting the Dementia Pathway Right: Tom and Barbara’s Story (NHS RightCare), Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care Services, Hospital Discharge Delays, Improvement Opportunities in Local Commissioning, Inappropriate Acute Care, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Local Commissioning, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Interdependencies, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, NHS Right Care, NHS Right Care Approach, NHS RightCare, NHS RightCare and Commissioning for Value, Optimal Versus Sub-Optimal Dementia Care Pathways, Sub-Optimal Pathways: No Prevention, Sub-Optimal Pathways: Pillar to Post, Sub-Optimal Pathways: Preventable Harm, Sub-Optimal Pathways: Too Late, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Typical Dementia Care Pathway, Unplanned Admissions Enhanced Service
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Public Opinion Update on the NHS and Social Care (Health Foundation)
Summary Public opinion has even greater significance in the context of the June 2017 General Election. “The Health Foundation commissioned Ipsos MORI to do a survey of the general public in Great Britain on their views about funding of the … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 2017 General Election, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Brexit, British Social Attitudes Survey, Consumer Experiences of Health and Social Care, End-User Experience, Failing Services (NHS and Social Care), Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Future of NHS and Social Care, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Costs, Ipsos Mori, Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute, NatCen: British Social Attitudes survey (BSA), NHS and Social Care, NHS and Social Care (Public Opinion / Experience), NHS and Social Care Spending, NHS Sustainability, Patient Experiences, Public Opinion, Quality and Sustainability, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding Gap, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Waiting Times, What’s Wrong With Social Care in England
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King’s Fund Videos Explaining How Social Care Works and is Funded (King’s Fund / NHS England)
Summary The King’s Fund has produced three videos to raise awareness of how social care operates in England. The topics covered include: What is social care? Who provides social care? How is social care paid for? Full Text Link Reference … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountable Care Systems, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Berkshire West (Reading Newbury and Wokingham), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Blackpool and Fylde Coast (Lancashire and South Cumbria Later), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Buckinghamshire, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Dorset, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Frimley Health (Slough Surrey Heath and Aldershot), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Luton (Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Nottinghamshire (Greater Nottingham and Rushcliffe), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw (Barnsley Bassetlew Doncaster Rotherham and Sheffield), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): West North and East Cumbria Plus Northumberland, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Community Care, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Costs and Cost Pressures, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Accountable Care Systems, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care Services, Hospital Discharge Delays, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Interdependencies, King’s Fund Barker Commission, Self-Funders Subsidising the Social Care System, Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding Gap, Social Care Funding Shortfalls, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, What’s Wrong With Social Care in England
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Integration 2020: Towards an Integration Standard for Health and Social Care (SCIE)
Summary The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s “Integration 2020” research was commissioned by the Department of Health to help plan for more integrated health and social care. This report clarifies what better integration of health and care is expected … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ageing Population, All Together Better, Association, Barriers and Facilitators to Integration by 2020, Barriers to Integration, Berkshire Healthcare NHS, Better Care Fund (BCF), Better Care Fund Graduation, Birmingham City Council, Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Care Closer to Home, Care England, Care Planning, Care Quality Commission, Careline, Collaborate, Continuously Improving Value for Money, Delayed Discharges, Department for Communities and Local Government, Devolution and Local Place-Shaping, Digital Interoperability, Digital Maturity Index, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Dudley CCG, Dudley CVS, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley Healthwatch, Dudley MBC, Dudley’s Multispecialty Community Provider Model, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), foundation trust, Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Services, High-Risk Cohorts Targeted, Home Group, Innovation and Training (MERIT) in the West Midlands, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Care and Support, Integrated Care in Dudley, Integrated Care in Mid-Nottinghamshire, Integrated Care in Southampton, Integrated Care in York, Integrated Care Plans, Integrated Community Care, Integrated Health and Care 2020: Integration 2020, Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC), Integrated Urgent and Emergency Care, Integration 2020: an Integration Standard for Health and Social Care, Integration Agenda, Integration by 2020, Integration of Health and Care, Integration Pioneer, Integration Scorecard, Integration Scorecard 2020, Local Authorities, Local Government Association, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Mansfield District Council, MCP Logic Model, Measuring Progress and Outcomes, Mental Health, Mental Health Alliance for Excellence, Modality in Birmingham and Sandwell, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, National Care Forum, National Voices, New Care Models, New Models of Care Programme, NHS Confed, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Providers, North West London, Nottinghamshire County Council, Personal Budgets for Older People, Personalisation, Personalised Care Plans, Preventive Support: Risk Stratification for Case Finding, Priory Medical Group, Reconfiguration of Health Care Services, Resilience, Risk Stratification, Risk Stratification Programmes, Scottish Government, Single Assessment and Care Plans, Single Assessment and Integrated Care Planning, Social Care Embedded in Urgent and Emergency Care, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Southampton City CCG, Southampton City Council, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), The Health Foundation, The Leadership Centre, The Social Work for Better, Timely and Safe Discharges, United Kingdom Homecare, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Commissioning, Value for Money
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Sustainability of Funding for NHS and Adult Social Care (House of Lords Select Committee)
Summary The House of Lords Select Committee on the Long-term Sustainability of the NHS has identified a culture of short-termism regarding the funding of NHS and adult social care. All governments have short-sightedly failed to plan effectively for the long-term, … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, 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, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Social Care Funding, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Barriers to Integration, Barriers to Integration: Different Funding Incentives for the NHS and Local Authorities, Barriers to Integration: Different Funding Models, Barriers to Integration: Different Workforce Cultures, Barriers to Integration: Difficulties in Effective Information Sharing, Barriers to Integration: Integration of Budgets, Barriers to Integration: NHS Services Free Versus Means-Tested Social Care, Barriers to Integration: Problems Regarding Joint-Departmental Oversight, Cap on Care Costs, Care Costs: Cap and Means Test, Care Funding, Cross-Party and Public Consensus On Sustainable Funding, Data Sharing, Department of Communities and Local Government, Department of Health to be Renamed as the Department of Health and Care (Proposal), Dilnot Commission and Government’s Response, Dilnot Commission Recommendations, Dilnot Commission Report on Funding of Care and Support, Encouraging Innovation, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Funding, Funding and Investment, Funding Challenges, Funding Gaps, Funding of Care and Support, Funding of Care and Support (Dilnot Commission), Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Services, Health Education England (HEE), House of Lords, House of Lords (HL Paper 151), House of Lords Select Committee on the Long-term Sustainability of the NHS, Houses of Parliament, Innovation and Improvement, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Care and Support, Local Authorities, Local Government Association, Local Solutions: Place-Based Approaches, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Models of Care: Integrated Models, New Care Models, New Care Models Programme, New Models of Care, New Models of Care Vanguards, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Spending, NHS Sustainability, Office for Health and Care Sustainability (Proposal), Organisational Integration, Parliament, Parliamentarians, Place-Based Collaboratives, Political Consensus (Faltering), Prevention, Professor Andrew Dilnot, Public Health, Select Committee on the Long-term Sustainability of the NHS ( House of Lords), Service Transformation, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Trust and Data Sharing, UK Parliament, Whole System Integration, Whole Systems Approach, Whole Systems Design, Whole-System Approaches
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More on NHS Funding and Expenditure: Questions of Balance Regarding Income Versus Outgoings (BBC News / King’s Fund / Health Foundation)
Summary NHS England hopes to save between £100 – £400 million of spending annually, by no longer funding / prescribing products and services identified by NHS Clinical Commissioners as having little or no clinical value. Full Text Link Reference Triggle, … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Department of Health, Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountability and Integration, Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Anita Charlesworth: Director of Research and Economics at the Health Foundation, Anita Charlesworth: Health Foundation, Barriers and Enablers to Value in Healthcare, BBC Health News, Closing the Finance and Efficiency Gap, Closing the Funding and Efficiency Gap, Commissioning for Value, Consultant Delivered Care, Consultant Input, Consultant Productivity, Consultant Productivity n Acute NHS Hospitals, Dr Clare Gerada, Dr Peter Carter OBE, Duty of Best Value, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Savings, Finance, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Issues, Financial Management, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Forty Treatments With Little or No Benefit For Patients (Academy of Medical Royal Colleges), Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding of Care and Support, Funding Reform, Future Funding Models, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care: Delivering a Secure Funding Future, Health and Social Care: Delivering a Secure Funding Future Panel: Clare Gerada, Health and Social Care: Delivering a Secure Funding Future Panel: Katherine Murphy, Health and Social Care: Delivering a Secure Funding Future Panel: Peter Carter, Health and Social Care: Delivering a Secure Funding Future Panel: Sir David Nicholson, Health: Financing, Hypothecated Tax for Health and Social Care, Hypothecated Taxes, Hypothecation, Independent Providers, Independent Sector, Integration of Health and Social Care, Katherine Murphy: Chief Executive of the Patients Association, Low Value Prescription Items, Low-Value Care, Mythology of the Times, NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC), NHS Expenditure, NHS Finances and Consultant Productivity, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding and Rationing, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Myths (King’s Fund Debunker): The NHS Always Needs More Money, NHS Myths (King’s Fund Debunker): The NHS Been Given the Extra Funding it Demanded of Politicians, NHS Myths (King’s Fund Debunker): The NHS is Inefficient, NHS Myths (King’s Fund Debunker): The NHS is Too Bureaucratic, NHS Myths (King’s Fund Debunker): The NHS is Too Slow to Change, NHS Sustainability, Patients Association, Patients' Association / Liberal Democrats Panel on Health and Social Care: Delivering a Secure Funding Future, Private Health Insurance (PHI), Rationing, Rationing Care, Rationing: Limiting the NHS, Sir David Nicholson, Social Health Insurance (SHI), Sustainability, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures, User Charges, Whole-System Approaches
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