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Tag Archives: Living Wage
Fifteen Minute Visits for Personal Care Remain (BBC News / Unison)
Summary Research by the union Unison has identified the persistence of 15-minute home care visits, which are too short for all but the most minimal “flying visits”. Such short home care visits are acceptable, for example, when dropping by to … 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, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 15-Minute Home Care Visits, 15-Minute Visits Unsuitable For Personal Care, 30-Minute Recommended Minimum Home Care Visits, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Barriers: Lack of Continuity of Care, BBC Health News, Care Funding, Commissioning Home Care, Commissioning Home Care for Older People, Commissioning of Domiciliary Care, Commissioning of Homecare Services, Continuity and Consistency, Continuity of Care, Continuity of Care and Relationships, Continuity of Care for Older People, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), Courtesy, Dementia and Homecare, Dignity, Dignity and Respect, Distressing Inconsistency of Homecare Workers and Timings, Domiciliary Care, Flying Visits (Home Care), FOI: Freedom of information, Funding Challenges, Funding Gap (Home Care), Funding Gaps, Funding of Care and Support, Good Quality Home Care, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Home Care, Home Care Implementation, Home Care Organisations, Home Care Packages (HCP), Home Care Services, Home Care Standards, Home Care Support, Home Care Workers, Home Care Workers' Travel Time, Home Care Workforce, Home Care: Safety and Safeguarding, Homecare, Homecare and Care Home Workers, Inappropriate 15 Minute Home Care Visits to Deliver Personal Care, Independence, Independence at Home, Independent Living With Care, Izzi Seccombe: Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, LGA: Local Government Association, Living Wage, Local Government Association, National Living Wage, Payment of Travel Time, Personal Care, Personal Care at Home, Personal Care Plans, Personal Care: Inappropriate 15 Minute Home Care Visits, Pressures on Home Care Workforce: Emotional Blackmail and Good Will, Quality and Continuity of Care for Vulnerable Patients (New Deal), Quality Standards for Home Care, Safeguarding: Home Care, Safety: Home Care, Short Visits (Home Care), Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding Shortfalls, Suffering Alone at Home (UNISON Report Lack of Time in Home Care Visits), Unison, UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter, Unmet Care Needs, Unmet Health and Care Needs, Unmet Needs, Unmet Social Care Needs
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On the Interdependence Between Social Care Provision and NHS Performance: a “Perfect Storm” Brewing for Winter? (BBC News / Nuffield Trust / ILC-UK / RCEM)
Summary While the Government’s Spending Review gave scope for more money to be made available to support social care services, (i) by allowing local authorities to raise council tax by 2% and (ii) increasing the amount of money available for … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, 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, NHS, NHS Confederation, Northern Ireland, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Active Bed Management, Acute Bed Capacity, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), BBC Health News, Bed Availability and Occupancy: NHS Performance Indicators, Better Care Fund (BCF), Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, British Social Attitudes Survey, Care Funding Advice Network (CFAN), Care Provider Alliance, Centre for Later Life Funding, College of Emergency Medicine, ComRes Survey for BBC 5 Live, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Costs and Cost Pressures, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Performance Indicators, Discharge, Elderly People With Complex Health and Social Care Needs, Elective Operations Cancelled, Ensuring Health and Social Care Services Work Together, EU Referendum Debate: BBC News Reality Check, European Union Referendum, European Union Referendum Debate: BBC Reality Check, Front-Loaded NHS Investment for 2016–17, 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 Leaders, Health and Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care Services, ILC-UK, ILC-UK: International Longevity Centre UK, Integrating Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Interdependencies, International Longevity Centre UK (ILC-UK), Jane Cummings: Chief Nursing Officer for England, Journal of Geriatric Care and Research (JGCR), Living Wage, Local NHS Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Lost Beds Problem (sic), Maintenance of Old and Expensive Hospital Buildings (Jane Cummings), Making Our Care and Health Systems Fit for An Ageing Population, Monthly Performance Statistics for February 2016, NatCen Social Research, National Living Wage, NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Providers, NHS Sustainability, NHS Winter 2015-16: Weekly A&E Tracker, NHS Winter Tracker (BBC), Norman Lamb MP, Nuffield Trust Parliamentary Briefing, Observer Effect, Patient Flows, Population Winter Pressures, Public Satisfaction With the NHS, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, RCEM Winter Flow Project, Richard Barker: NHS England's Interim National Director of Commissioning Operations and Information, Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Rt Hon. Alan Milburn, Rt Hon. Stephen Dorrell MP, Seasonal Pressures, Spending Review 2015, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Sustainable Local Funding, Sustainable Social Care Programme, UHB NHS Trust Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Upward Spending Pressures, Whole System Patient Flows, Winter Pressures, Winter Pressures: Role of Community Health Services
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Crisis in Care Homes / Social Care Sustainability? (BBC News / ResPublica)
Summary Economic analysis of the financial sustainability of residential care home services in England suggests that care homes could – within five years – be underfunded by £1.1 billion per year. This raises worrying implications for future capacity relative to … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, 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, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Social Care Funding, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Barchester, BBC Health News, Bupa, Care Homes, Care UK, Commissioning and Funding, Economic Sustainability, Four Seasons, Four Seasons Health Care Homes, Future of Residential Care, HC-1, Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, Home Care, Lack of Alignment Between Care Funding Streams, Lack of Alignment in Organisation, LaingBuisson, Living Wage, Making Our Care and Health Systems Fit for An Ageing Population, National Living Wage, National Living Wage in Social Care Sector, Older People Living in Care Homes, Provider Sustainability, Residential Care, Residential Care Costs, Residential Care Homes, Residential Care Homes: Cost Structure, Resolution Foundation, ResPublica, ResPublica Trust (ResPublica), Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding Shortfalls, Southern Cross, Spending Cuts, Spending on Local Authority Social Care, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Tale of Two Systems (NHS and Social Care), Upward Spending Pressures
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Key to Care Report: the Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce (BBC News / LGiU)
Summary The “Key to Care” report, published in early December by the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) and the home care provider Mears, predicted that the home care system in England could be close to crisis because of the extent … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adult Social Care: Market Oversight, Alan Long (Mears): Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Alan Long: Executive Director of Mears Group, Allied Healthcare, Allied Healthcare Seeks Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), Barchester, Barchester Homes, BBC Health News, Better and Fairer Commissioning, Bupa, Burstow Commission Report, Camilla Cavendish, Care UK, Care Workers Deserve Better, Career of Esteem, CareOpinion, Cavendish Review, Clare Pelham (Leonard Cheshire Disability): Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Clare Pelham: Chief Executive of Leonard Cheshire Disability, Cllr Gwen Hassall (Stoke): Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Cllr John Pantall (Stockport): Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Colin Angel: UK Home Care Association, Commission on Residential Care: Chaired by Paul Burstow MP, Commissioning Care, Commissioning Home Care, Commissioning Home Care for Older People, Commissioning of Domiciliary Care, ComRes Survey for BBC 5 Live, Cost Structure for Residential Care Homes, Creating Time to Care, Criminal Records Bureau, Design and Technology in Home Care, Design Council, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Domiciliary Care, Equality and Human rights Commission (EHRC), Expenses and Other Shoddy Practices, False Economy: Not Paying Home Care Workers for Travel, Former Care Services Minister Paul Burstow, Former Health Minister), Four Seasons Health Care, Future Care Workforce, FutureGov, FutureGov’s Casserole Club, HC-One, HCP: Home Care Packages, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Help at Home, Home Care, Home Care Funding and Costs, Home Care Providers, Home Care Services, Home Care Shortfall, Home Care Standards, Home Care Support, Home Care Workers, Home Care Workers' Travel Time, Home Care Workforce, Home Care: Commissioning, Home Help Service and Home Care Support Schemes, Illegal Deductions From Pay (of Care Workers), Jonathan Carr-West: Local Government Information Unit (LGiU), Kevin Rowan (TUC): Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Laura Gardiner: Resolution Foundation, LGiU, Licence to Practise, Living Wage, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Government Information Unit (LGiU), London Living Wage, Low Esteem Versus Career of Esteem, Market Oversight, Market Oversight in Adult Social Care, Mears (Home Care Provider), Mears Group, Minimum Payments for Contact Hours, Minimum Wage, Minimum Wage Regulations, National Living Wage, National Minimum Wage in the Care Sector, Non-Compliance With Minimum Wage Regulations, Oversight and Monitoring, PatientOpinion, Paul Burstow (Former Care Services Minister), Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat, Paul Burstow MP: Chair of Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Paying Home Care Workers for Travel, Payment of Travel Time, Profile of Home Care, Rallyround app, Regulation of Care Workers, Report of the Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Residential Care Homes, Residential Care Homes: Cost Structure, Resolution Foundation, Responsible and Innovative Home Care Providers, Royal College of Art, Rt Hon. Paul Burstow MP, Sarah Newton MP: Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Shoddy Practices, Skills for Care, Social Care Workforce, Social Care Workforce Development, Staff Turnover, Staffing Level Indicators: Staff Turnover, Task and Time Commissioning, Time to Care, Time-Task Culture, UK Home Care Association, UK Homecare Association, UK Homecare Association (UKHCA), UKHCA: UK Homecare Association, Undervalued Hidden Workforce, United Kingdom Home Care Association (UKHCA), Valuing Care and Care Workers, Valuing Carers, Valuing the Healthcare Assistants, Workforce, Workforce Competencies, Workforce Development, Workforce Issues, Workforce Planning and Development, Workforce Retention Recruitment and Resilience, Workforce Training, Working Carer Tax Credits and Care Credits, Zero-Hours Contracts
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Local Interventions to Reduce Health Inequalities (British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
Summary This document is a collection of opinions from leading social scientists on how to reduce health inequalities. Each article presents the evidence base for a particular area, and identifies the policy interventions which local authorities could introduce to improve … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), 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, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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