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Tag Archives: NHS Continuing Care
Care Act Goes Live: SCIE Resources / Guidance (BBC News / SCIE)
Summary The Care Act 2014 introduces the biggest shake-up in social care for 60 years. Full Text Link Reference Triggle, N. (2015). Care system gets ‘biggest shake-up in 60 years’. London: BBC Health News, April 1st 2015. There is a … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, SCIE, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Autonomy and Choice, BBC Cost of Care Project, BBC Health News, Better Care Fund (BCF), Care Act 2014, Care and Support, Care and Support Funding Reforms, Care and Support Planning, Care Costs: Cap and Means Test, Carer Support, Carer’s Needs Assessment, Carers' Assessments, Choice and Control Over Decisions, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Cost of Care Project (BBC News), Direct Payment, Direct Payments, Eligibility Criteria for Social Care, Information and Advice, Information and Advice Services, Informed Choices About Health and Social Care, Integrating Health and Social Care Personal Budgets, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Local Authorities, Local Authorities (LAs), Local Care Providers, Local Service Providers, Maintaining Independence, Means Test, National Minimum Eligibility Criteria, National Minimum Eligibility Threshold, National Minimum Eligibility Threshold for Adult Care and Support, Needs Analysis, Needs Assessments, Needs of Carers, NHS Continuing Care, Public Bodies (Joint Working) Act (Scotland), Social Care, Social Care Funding, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Care Reform, Support for Carers, Voice Choice and Control
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Dementia Today and Tomorrow (Deloitte / Alzheimer’s Society)
Summary This report, from the Deloitte UK Centre for Health Solutions in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Society, summarises the emerging consensus and outcomes developed from a series of events and initiatives which aimed to collect the views of people interested … Continue reading →
Posted in Alzheimer's Society, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 15-Minute Home Care Visits, Access and Equity For Care Home Residents to Local NHS Services, Access to Care, Acute Hospital Care, Admissions to Nursing Care, Admissions to Residential Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population Carer Support, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Alzheimer’s Society Carers Café’s, Amanda Scott: Managing Director of Sunrise Senior Living, Anne-Marie Hamilton: Strategic Programmes at Public Health England, Assistive Technology, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Awareness Campaigns, Baroness Sally Greengross (APPG on Dementia), Baroness Sally Greengross: Chief Executive of the International Longevity Centre UK, Benefits of Telehealth, Better Care Fund (BCF), Bradford Dementia Group, Building on the National Dementia Strategy, Capitation Bsed Funding Models, Care Act 2014, Care Funding, Care Home Residents, Care Homes, Care in the Community, Care Packages, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Career Pathways for HCAs, Carer Support Services, Carers' Career Pathways, Carers' Career Progression, Challenge on Dementia (David Cameron), Challenges of Reconfiguration, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Commissioning Home Care, Commissioning of Homecare Services, Community Support Services, Continuing Care, Cross-Boundary Care Pathway Redesign, Cross-Sector Partnerships, David Cameron, Deborah Sturdy: Red and Yellow Care, Deloitte LLP (“Deloitte”), Deloitte UK Centre for Health Solutions, Dementia Action Alliance (DAA), Dementia Advisers, Dementia Advisor, Dementia Advisor Service, Dementia Advisor Services, Dementia Advisors, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Awareness Training, Dementia Care in Care Homes, Dementia Care in Hospitals, Dementia Challenge, Dementia Friendly Communities Dementia Friends, Dementia Friends, Dementia Friends Campaign, Dementia Friends Champions, Dementia Friends Programme, Dementia Health and Care Champion Group, Dementia Information Prescription, Dementia Pathway Re-Configuration, Dementia Research, Dementia Risk Factors, Dementia Today and Tomorrow (Deloitte), Dementia-Friendly Care Homes, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Department of Health Dementia Challenge, Department of Health Dementia Challenge (2020), Digital Technology, Dignity in Care, Dignity in Dementia, Disease Modifying Treatment by 2025 (Aim), Dr Martin McShane: NHS England’s Director for People With Long Term Conditions, Early Diagnosis, Eligibility Criteria for Social Care, Emerging Technology, Enabling Technology, End-of-Life Support, English National Dementia Strategy, Extra Care Housing, Extra Care Housing and Dementia, Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) Eligibility Criteria, Family Carers, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Free Care Home Places, Gavin Terry: Policy Manager at Alzheimer’s Society, George McNamara: Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Alzheimer’s Society, GP Access, Guidepost Trust’s Dementia Information Prescription, Health and Social Care Act (2012), Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), Health Care for Older Care Home Residents, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Communities, Healthy Lifestyles Improving Care for People with Dementia, Helen O’Kelly: Strategic Clinical Network Assistant Lead (London Region) at NHS England, Hilary Evans: Charity Director of Alzheimer’s Research UK, Home Care, Home Care Funding and Costs, Homecare and Care Home Workers, Hospital Care, Hospitals and Care Homes "Speaking Dementia", House of Care Model, Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, Inappropriate Prescribing, Inappropriate Use of Antipsychotics in Dementia, Independence, Independence at Home, Independent Living At Home, Independent Living With Care, Informal Carers, Information and Support for Patients and Carers, Innovation for an Ageing Population, Integration of Health and Social Care, Involvement and Participation, Jeremy Hughes (Alzheimer’s Society Chief Executive), Jewish Care, Jill Rasmussen: Royal College of General Practitioners Dementia Champions, Join Dementia Research, Join Dementia Research: Recruitment Onto Dementia Studies Lifestyle Risk Factors, Jonathan Walden: Public Health England, Josie Dixon: Personal Social Services Research Unit at London School of Economics, Karen Taylor: Director of Centre for Health Solutions (Deloitte), Kristina Glenn: Director of Cripplegate Foundation, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Living Well with Dementia, Living Well with Dementia Research, Local Dementia Action Alliances, Local Dementia Action Alliances in England, Local Government, Local Health and Care Economies, Local Health and Care Services, Local Health and Wellbeing Boards, Local Health Economies, Local Variations, Loneliness and Dementia, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Maelenn Guerchet: King’s College London, Maintaining Independence, Making Hospital Admission the Option of Last Resort, Memory Loss, Mobile Technology, National Dementia Strategy, National Funding Streams for Training Social Care Staff, NDSE: National Dementia Strategy (for England), Needs of Older People Living in Care Homes, NHS Continuing Care, NHS England Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Service Reconfiguration, Peer Support, Personal Budgets, Personalised Customised Care Packages, Peter Watson (Carer), Phil Hope: Former Minister of Care Services, PM Challenge on Dementia: Health and Care Champion Group Subgroup on Dementia and Homecare, Pooled Budgets (Pooled Funds), Pooled Funding, Post-Diagnosis Support, Prevalence of Dementia, Prevention, Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia, Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister’s Challenge On Dementia 2020, Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, Professor Dawn Brooker, Professor Murna Downs, Professor Sube Banerjee, Professor Sube Banerjee: Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), 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End-of-Life Care: Under-Recognition of People With Dementia? (BBC News / Marie Curie Cancer Care)
Summary A report by Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Alzheimer’s Society asserts that dementia sufferers may not always get the quality of care needed, possibly because their condition is not recognised sufficiently (at a societal level and in commissioning … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Funding, Access to Palliative Care, Advance Care Planning, Ageing Population, Awareness, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Campaigns, Awareness Raising, Barriers: Access to Funding, Barriers: Access to Hospice Care, Barriers: Access to Palliative Care, Barriers: Discrimination, Barriers: Failure to Adapt Practice to Reflect the Different Nature of Dementia, Barriers: Failure to Identify Dementia as a Cause of Death, Barriers: Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, Barriers: Inappropriate Interventions, Barriers: Inconsistency in Care Standards in Hospitals, Barriers: Ineffective Advance Care Planning, Barriers: Lack of Continuity of Care, Barriers: Lack of Recognition of Dementia as a Terminal Condition, Barriers: Lack of Support for Carers, Barriers: Lack of Timely and Appropriate Diagnosis, Barriers: Poor Pain Management, BBC Health News, Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities (UK), Care Standards in Hospitals, Carer Support, Cause of Death, Continuing Care, Continuity of Care, Decision Support Tools, Dementia as Cause of Death, Dementia Awareness Training, Dementia Severity, Discrimination, Dying Matters, Dying Matters Coalition, End Stage Dementia, End-of-Life Care Pathways, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Access to Funding, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Access to Hospice Care, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Access to Palliative Care, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Discrimination, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Failure to Adapt Practice to Reflect the Different Nature of Dementia, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Failure to Identify Dementia as a Cause of Death, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Inappropriate Interventions, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Inconsistency in Care Standards in Hospitals, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Ineffective Advance Care Planning, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Lack of Continuity of Care, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Lack of Recognition of Dementia as a Terminal Condition, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Lack of Support for Carers, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Lack of Timely and Appropriate Diagnosis, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Poor Pain Management, End-of-Life Nursing Services, End-of-Life Transitions, European Association for Palliative Care’s White Paper, Funding of Continuing Care, Hospice Care, Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, Inappropriate Interventions, Kings College London, Local Dementia Prevalence, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Marie Curie’s and Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Report, My Life Until the End: Dying Well With Dementia (Alzheimer’s Society), National Audit of Dementia (Care in General Hospitals), National Care of the Dying Audit for Hospitals, National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), National Dementia Prevalence, NHS Continuing Care, Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD), Pain Management, PAINAD (Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia) Tool, Palliative and End of Life Care for Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Groups in UK, Palliative Care, Palliative Care in Dementia (and Dementia Severity), Recognition of Dementia as a Terminal Condition, Recorded Dementia Prevalence, Stigma, Support for Carers, Terminal Illness, Terminal Trajectories Typical of Cancer and Dementia (adapted from (Sachs [et al] 2004), Timely Diagnosis, UK Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities
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Dementia Revealed: Dementia Guide / Toolkit for GPs (NHS England / Department of Health / RCGP)
Summary NHS England has a commitment to improve dementia diagnosis rates. NHS England has published a guide to help GPs perform better on the timely diagnosis of dementia and to offer advice on post-diagnostic support for the person with the … Continue reading →
Posted in Alzheimer's Society, Antipsychotics, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Delirium, Department of Health, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, Falls, 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, Pharmacological Treatments, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 4AT Score, 4AT Screening Instrument for Rapid Initial Assessment of Delirium and Cognitive Impairment, Abbreviated Mental Test Score (AMTS), ACE III: Modified Addenbrooke’s Test, Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), Acute Change or Fluctuating Course, Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE), Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment (ADRT), Advance Directives, Agitation, Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol Misuse, Alistair Burns: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia, Alternatives to Medication for Agitation, AMT4 (Abbreviated Mental Test - 4), Anticholinergic Drugs, Anticholinergics, Antipsychotics Limitation in Dementia, Antipsychotics: Neuroleptic Sensitivity, AT4 (Delirium Scale), Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Benefits Advice, Benzodiazepines, BPSD, BPSD: Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, Care Homes, Caregiver Assessments, Carers' Assessments, Clomethiazole, Coding of Dementia, Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST), Dementia and Alcohol, Dementia and Driving Guidance, Dementia Coding, Dementia Diagnosis Rates, Dementia Prevalence Calculator, Dementia Revealed: Dementia Guide for GPs, Dementia Toolkit for GP Commissioners, Dementia Toolkit for GPs, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), Diagnosis and Assessment, Diagnosis and Referral, Diagnosis and Support, Diagnosis at Primary Care Level, Dr Elizabeth Barrett: Shires Health Care (Hardwick CCG), Driving, Driving and Dementia, Early Diagnosis, Fluctuation Assessment Scales, Fluctuations, General Practice, General Practice in England, General Practices, General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG), Geriatric Depression Scale, GPCog (The General Practitioner assessment of Cognition), GPs' Dementia Toolkit, IMCAs and Safeguarding, Improving Coding, Improving Dementia Diagnosis Rates, Improving General Practice, Inappropriate Use of Antipsychotics in Dementia, Independent Mental Capacity Advocates (IMCAs), Lasting Power of Attorney (LPoA), Lorazepam, Low Dose Antipsychotics, Managing Agitation, Memantine, Memory Clinics, Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), Mirtazapine, Montreal Cognition Assessment (MOCA), NHS Continuing Care, NHS Hardwick CCG, Post-Diagnosis Support, Post-Diagnostic Support, Primary Care, Professor Alistair Burns, Quetiapine, RCGP, Risperidone, Rivastigmine, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults, Sertraline, Shires Health Care, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England (2014-), Social Services, Support for Improving Dementia Diagnosis Rates, Temazepam, Timely Diagnosis, Trazodone, Voluntary Organisations, Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome, Zopiclone
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Radical Review of Health and Social Care Funding (BBC News / Barker Commission / King’s Fund)
Summary The Barker Commission has asserted that the NHS and social care systems in England need to be merged, with a single ring-fenced budget, in the most radical overhaul since their creation in the 1940s. Proposals for new models of … Continue reading →
Posted in 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, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accommodation Costs, Adult Social Care Eligibility Threshold, Adult Social Care Funding, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Alignment in Entitlements to Health and Social Care, Altered Burden of Disease, Attitudes to Older People, Barker Commission, Baroness Sally Greengross: Chief Executive of the International Longevity Centre UK, BBC Health News, Becky Seale: Experts by Experience Group Co-ordinator, Beyond Integrated Care: Population Health Systems, Cambridge Whitehall Group, Care Act 2014, Care and Support Allowance, Care Costs: Cap and Means Test, Care Funding, Care in an Ageing Society, Changing Attitudes and Expectations, Charges for GP Visits, Charges for Missed Appointments, Charges for Outpatient and A&E Attendances, Collective Versus Individual Responsibility, Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England, Commissioning and Funding, Community-Based Interventions, Comprehensiveness Versus Limited Benefit Bundles, Continuing Care, Coordinated Care, Coordination, Countries Sharing Broadly Similar Institutions, Deficit Reduction, Dementia Tax, Demographic Changes, Demographics, Dilnot Commission Recommendations, Dilnot Commission Report on Funding of Care and Support, Dilnot Reforms, Disability Living Allowance (DLA), Entitlements, Entitlements to Health and Social Care, Equal Support for Equal Needs (Health and Social Care), Equality of Support for Comparable Needs, Experts by Experience Group, Fair Access to Care Services, Financial Constraints, Funding Challenges, Funding of Care and Support, Funding of Care and Support (Dilnot Commission), Funding of Continuing Care, Funding Reform, Future Funding Models, Future UK Health and Social Care Funding, Future UK Health and Social Care Spending, Geoff Alltimes CBE: Chair Local Government Association’s Multi-Agency Task Group on Health Transition, Graduated Path for Health and Care Support, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Expenditure, Health Funding, Health Reform, Health System, Hypothecated Tax for Health and Social Care, Individual Responsibility and Affordability, Inequity, Inheritance Tax, Institutionalised Unfairness, Insurance Market and Other Financial Products, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, International Comparisons, Julian Le Grand: Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics, Kate Barker CBE: Chair of Barker Commission, Kate Barker: Chair of Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England, King's Fund’s Time to Think Differently Programme, Lack of Alignment Between Care Funding Streams, Lack of Alignment in Organisation, Lack of Equity, Levies on Death, Local Solutions: Place-Based Approaches, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Longevity, Lord Bichard: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Market Failure in Social Care, Means Test, National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare, National Insurance, National Minimum Eligibility Threshold for Adult Care and Support, Needs Versus Wants, Netherlands, New Settlement for Health and Social Care, NHS, NHS Continuing Care, NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS Funding, NHS Reform, NHS Sources of Finance, NHS Tax, NHS: Sixty-Six Years On, Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), Patient Passport, Personal Budgets, Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), Place-Based Collaboratives, Poor Coordination, Population Health Systems, Prescription Charges, Private Funding, Projections of Health and Social Care Spending in England, PSSRU: Personal Social Services Research Unit (LSE), Public and Private Funding, Public Attitudes and Expectations, Public Service Reform, Rationing, Rationing: Limiting the NHS, Reforming the NHS From Within: Beyond Hierarchy, Simpler Pathway: Proposals for Social Care, Single Ring-Fenced Budget for Health and Social Care, Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Reform, Social Care Singly Commissioned, Social Demographics, Social Values, Spending Cuts, Spending on Local Authority Social Care, Sustainable Funding, Tale of Two Systems (NHS and Social Care), Tax Relief on Private Medical Insurance, Taxation, UK Social Care Spending Compared Internationally, Unfairness, Upward Spending Pressures, Wealth Taxation, Whole System Comparisons (International)
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Care Bill Becomes Care Act 2014 (Department of Health)
Summary The Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb has written about the impact of the Care Act 2014, which introduces the biggest change to social care for 60 years. This online article summarises the provisions of the Care Act and … Continue reading →
Posted in Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Autonomy and Choice, Better Care Fund (BCF), Care Act 2014, Care and Support, Care and Support Funding Reforms, Care and Support Planning, Care and Support Statutory Guidance, Care Bill, Care Bill 2013-14, Care Costs: Cap and Means Test, Carer Support, Chief Inspector of Social Care and Support, Choice and Control Over Decisions, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Direct Payment, Direct Payments, Eligibility Criteria for Social Care, Future of Residential Care, Government Response to Francis Inquiry Report, Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Information and Advice, Information and Advice Services, Informed Choices About Health and Social Care, Integrating Health and Social Care Personal Budgets, Integration, Local Authorities, Local Authorities (LAs), Local Care Providers, Local Service Providers, Maintaining Independence, Means Test, National Minimum Eligibility Criteria, National Minimum Eligibility Threshold, National Minimum Eligibility Threshold for Adult Care and Support, Needs Analysis, Needs Assessments, Needs of Carers, NHS Continuing Care, Norman Lamb (Former Care Minister), Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), Openness and Transparency, Parliament, Personal Budget, Personal Budgets (PBs), Personal Well-Being, Pre-Legislative Scrutiny, Preventative Care, Preventative Services, Prevention, Protecting Adults from Abuse or Neglect, Provider Failure, Providers, Reform, Reforming Social Care, Residential Care, Residential Care Homes, Social Care, Social Care Funding, Social Care Reform, Support for Carers, Voice Choice and Control, Wellbeing
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Proposals For a Single Health and Care System (Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England / The King’s Fund / BBC News)
Summary The independent Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England has proposed the creation of a single health and social care system; asserting that the current system is not fit for purpose. The Commission’s interim report … Continue reading →
Posted in 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, Integrated Care, International, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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