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Tag Archives: Mencap
Education and Training Framework: Learning Disabilities Core Skills (HEE / Skills for Health / Skills for Care / NHS England)
Summary Health Education England, Skills for Health and Skills for Care have produced a comprehensive resource, designed to support the education, training and workforce development needs of persons working with people who have learning disabilities. “This Framework was commissioned and … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Guidelines, Health Education England (HEE), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Workers in England, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Avenues Group, British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD), British Psychological Society (BPS), Building the Right Support, Care Act 2014, Care and Communication, Care and Treatment Reviews (CTRs), Care England, Care of Vulnerable Adults, Care Planning, Care Quality, Care Staff Education, Caregiver-Patient Communication, Challenging Behaviour Foundation, CHANGE, Changing Our Lives, College of Occupational Therapists - Special Section / People with Learning Disabilities, College of Policing, Core and Common Competences for Support Workers, Core Skills Education and Training Framework, Council for Disabled Children, Dr Dominic Slowie: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Learning Disability, Education and Training Framework: Learning Disabilities Core Skills, Hazel Watson: Head of Mental Health and Learning Disabilities at NHS England, Hazel Watson: NHS England’s Head Nurse for Learning Disability, HEE: Health Education England, Inclusion North, Law Ethics and Safeguarding in Learning Disability Care and Support, Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities Core Skills, Learning Disabilities Mortality Review, Learning Disabilities: Core Skills Education and Training Framework, Learning Disabilities: Education and Training, Learning Disabilities: Empowering Individuals, Learning Disabilities: Improving Health Outcomes, Learning Disabilities: Workforce, Learning Disability (LD) Transforming Care Programme, Learning Disability and Autism, Mencap, National Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme, NHS England, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, People With Learning Disabilities, Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD), Protecting Vulnerable People, Royal College of Nursing, Safeguarding, Safeguarding in Learning Disabilities Care and Support, Skills for Care, Skills for Care (SfC), Skills for Care and Skills for Health, Skills for Care Qualifications, Skills for Care Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF), Skills for Care’s Workforce Capacity Planning Guidance, Skills for Health, Skills for Health (SfH), Social Care, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Care Technical Competences for Support Workers, Social Care Workers: Skills for Supporting People with Learning Disabilities, Social Care Workforce, Support for Children and Adults With Autism: Unit / Reference Costs, Supporting People (Children Young People and Adults) with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD), Training the Social Care and Health Workforce, Transforming Care for People with Learning Disabilities, Transforming Care Partnerships’ (TCPs), UK Core Skills Training Framework, University of Warwick / PBS Academy, Workforce Competencies, Workforce Planning and Development, Workforce Training
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The Winterbourne View: Time for Change Report (BBC News / ACEVO / NHS England)
Summary The government may be failing many people with learning disabilities, by sending them to hospitals too far from home for too long, according to the “Winterbourne View: Time for Change” report, commissioned by NHS England. Full Text Link Reference … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, 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), In the News, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged ACEVO (Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations), ACEVO Transforming Care and Commissioning Steering Group, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Alternatives to Hospital-Based Treatments, Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Mortality, BBC Health News, Bradley Report Five Years On, Building Capacity in the Community, Care Closer to Home, Challenging Behaviour Foundation, Challenging Behaviour Foundation (CBF), Challenging Behaviour National Strategy Group, Challenging Behaviour National Strategy Group Charter, Charter of Rights for People With Learning Disabilities, Chemical Restraint, Closure Programme for "Inappropriate" In-Patient Facilities, Closures of Inpatient Institutions, Co-Commissioning with Charities and Social Enterprises, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Complementary Approaches to Reform, Direct Payments, Dr Margaret Flynn: Author of Winterbourne View Serious Case Review, Education and Training, Health and Social Care Reform, Health Care Reform, Health Education England, Inappropriate Use of Restraint Seclusion and Anti-Psychotics, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Jan Tregelles: Chief Executive of Mencap, Learning Disabilities, Life in the Community Social Investment Fund, Mandatory Commissioning Framework, Mencap, National Workforce Academy, NHS Reform, NHS Workforce, Patients’ Right to Challenge, Payment for Outcomes Fund, People With Learning Disabilities, Personal Budgets, Personal Health Budgets, Residential Services for People With Learning Disabilities, Restraint in Health and Adult Social Care, Right to Challenge, Seclusion (Supervised Confinement), Sir Stephen Bubb: Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), Skills for Care, Skills for Health, Social Care Reform, Social Investment Fund for Community-Based Services, Social Investment Fund: Life in the Community, Social Property Fund, Specialised Housing, Staff Training, Supported Housing for People With Learning Disabilities, Third Sector, Third Sector Commissioning, Training and Capacity-Building, Training and Support, Training for Carers, Transforming Care and Commissioning Steering Group, Vivien Cooper: Chief Executive of Challenging Behaviour Foundation, Winterbourne Joint Improvement Programme, Winterbourne View, Winterbourne View Concordat, Winterbourne View Hospital, Winterbourne View: Time for Change Report, Workforce Competencies, Workforce Development, Workforce Planning and Development, Workforce Training
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Alternative Pathway Integrating Housing, Care and Support (National Housing Federation)
[A version of this item features in Dementia: the Latest Evidence, Volume 3 Issue 6, February 2013]. Summary This National Housing Federation report, intended for the attention of local commissioners of health and social care, illustrates the advantages of integrated … Continue reading
Posted in ADASS, Age UK, Alzheimer's Society, Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, Housing LIN, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Accord Housing Association Ltd, ADASS Housing Network, Admissions to Residential Care, Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework, Alliance Homes, Anchor, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Avoidable Admissions, BCHA, Bedford Citizens Housing Association, Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council, Brighter Futures, Caldmore Housing, Calico Homes, Cambridgeshire County Council, Care & Repair England, CDS Co-operatives, Circle Anglia, Coast & Country Housing, Dane Group, Dolphin Square Foundation, East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT), Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, Extra Care Housing, ExtraCare Charitable Trust, Family Mosaic, Gentoo Group, Guinness, HACT, Halton Housing Trust, Hanover, Hanover Housing, Havebury Housing Association, Health and Housing Partnerships, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Select Committee Report on Social Care, Home from Hospital Services, Home Group, Housing 21, Housing 21's Dementia Specialist Community-Based End of Life Nurse, Housing and Care for Older People, Housing Associations, Housing for Older People, Housing Learning and Improvement Network, Housing Providers, Huntingdonshire District Council, IN Business for Neighbourhoods, Integrated Care Pathway, Integration, Integration of Housing Care and Support, Jeremy Porteus, Kingswood NHS Assessment and Treatment Unit, Leicester City Council, Leicester City Council Adult Social Care, Leicester City Council Supporting People, Liverpool PCT, Local Authorities, Local Government Association, Look Ahead, Mencap, Metropolitan Borough Council, MHA Care Group, Midland Heart, Moat, Moxley Court, National Housing Federation, National Housing Federation: Dementia and Housing Working Group, NHS Outcomes Framework, NHS Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group, North Somerset Council, One Housing Group, Orbit Group, Osborne Homes, Peabody Housing Trust, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Public Health Outcomes Framework, Redcar & Cleveland Council, Retirement Housing, Riverside, Scope, Service Integration, Short-Term Intermediate Housing, Social Housing, Social Housing Providers, Swan, Synergy, Temple Place, Tower Hamlets Community Rehabilitation and Recovery Service, Viridian, Warrington Health Consortium, Westminster Social Services, Willow Housing, Yarrow
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