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Tag Archives: Spending on Local Authority Social Care
Uncertain Reactions Concerning Changes to the Social Care Precept (BBC News)
Summary While social care budgets are widely claimed to be on a tipping-point of unsustainability, reactions to this week’s announcements have been ambivalent at best. Many commentators talk disparagingly of recent proposals for increases to the social care precept as … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Autumn Statement (2016), BBC Health News, Better Care Fund (BCF), British Red Cross, Care and Support Alliance, Central Government Social Care Funding Top Up of £240 Million, Commission on the Future of NHS and Social Care, Community Care, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Costs and Cost Pressures, Council Tax, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Former Minister of Care Services Norman Lamb, Former Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Future of NHS and Social Care, Geographical Variations, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Humanitarian Crisis in NHS Hospitals and Ambulance Services (Allegation), Integrating and Devolving Health and Social Care, Integrating Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Izzi Seccombe: Warwickshire County Council Leader, Jane Cummings: Chief Nursing Officer for England, Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party Leader), Jill Colbert, LGA: Local Government Association, Local Government Association, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Government Financial Settlement For 2017-18, Local Variations, Lord Porter: Local Government Association Chairman, March 2017 Budget: Rescue Package for Social Care, National Living Wage, National Living Wage in Social Care Sector, New Homes Bonus, Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), Opportunities For Efficiencies in Social Care, Parliamentarians, Philip Hammond, Ray James: Commission on Improving Urgent Care for Older People, Ray James: President of Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and Director of Health Housing, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Former Prime Minster), Sajid Javid: Communities Secretary, Sarah Wollaston: Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding 2016: Reality Checks (BBC News), Social Care Funding Shortfalls, Social Care Precept, Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE), Spending Cuts, Spending on Local Authority Social Care, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Unacceptable Variations, Upward Spending Pressures, Variations in Quality of Care, Variations in Social Care in England, Variations in Social Care Quality and Spending in England
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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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Carers Charged For Support? / Social Care Funding Shortfalls (Carers Trust / BBC News)
Summary Councils are reported to be increasingly likely to consider charging unpaid carers for the support they receive… despite the valuable role these people themselves play in relieving the pressures of growing demand for local health and care services. Such … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Social Care Funding, Ageing Population, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Barriers to Integration, BBC Health News, Better Care Fund, Better Care Fund (BCF), Care Act 2014, Care Funding, Care in an Ageing Society, Care Providers Alliance, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Fatigue, Carer Isolation, Carer Support, Carer's Needs, Carers Charged For Support, Carers Strategy, Carers Trust, Carers Trust: Charges on Carers Report, Carers Trust’s View on Charging Carers For Own Support, Carers’ Health and Wellbeing, Caring and Family Finances, Charge on Caring: Use and Impact of Charges by Councils Providing Support to Unpaid Carers, Commissioning and Funding, Dr Anna Batchelor: Dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, Dr David Richmond: President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Dr Giles Maskell: President of the Royal College of Radiologists, Dr Liam Brennan: President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, Dr Moira Fraser: Director of Policy and Research for Carers Trust, Dr Suzy Lishman: President of the Royal College of Pathologists, Experiences, Family Caregivers, Family Carers, Financial Issues, FOI: Freedom of information, Freedom of Information, Impact of Caring on Carers, Local Carers Trust Network Partners, Miss Clare Marx: President of Royal College of Surgeons of England, Mr Michael Lavelle-Jones: President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, National Carers Strategy, Needs of Carers, Personal Finances, Poverty, Prof Carrie MacEwen: President of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Prof David Oliver: President of the British Geriatrics Society, Prof John Ashton: President of Faculty of Public Health, Prof Neena Modi: President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Professor Dame Sue Bailey: Chair of Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Professor Jane Dacre: President of Royal College of Physicians, Professor Sir Simon Wessely: President of Royal College of Psychiatrists, Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding Shortfalls, Spending Cuts, Spending on Local Authority Social Care, Support for Carers, Sustainable Caring, Sustainable Funding, Tale of Two Systems (NHS and Social Care), Underpaid, Undervalued Hidden Workforce, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Valuing Carers
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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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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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Tagged Adult Social Care Eligibility Threshold, Adult Social Care Funding, Attitudes to Older People, Australia, Barker Commission, Barker Report: Interim Report, BBC Health News, Better Care Fund (BCF), Beyond Dilnot, British Social Attitudes Survey, Care Costs: Cap and Means Test, Centralisation Versus Decentralisation, Changing Attitudes and Expectations, Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England, Community-Based Interventions, Comprehensiveness Versus Limited Benefit Bundles, Continuing Care, Coordinated Care, Coordination, Demographic Changes, Demographics, Dilnot Commission Recommendations, Dilnot Commission Report on Funding of Care and Support, Entitlements, Equity Versus Efficiency, Equity Versus Equality, Evaluating Integrated and Community-Based Care, France, Funding of Care and Support (Dilnot Commission), Funding of Continuing Care, Funding Reform, Germany, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Funding, Health Reform, Health System, Home Care, Inequalities of Health Care, Inequalities of Health Versus Inequalities of Health Care, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, International Comparisons, Ireland, Japan, Kate Barker: Chair of Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England, King's Fund’s Time to Think Differently Programme, Liberalism Versus Libertarianism, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions, Market Versus State, Means Test, National Minimum Eligibility Threshold for Adult Care and Support, Needs Versus Wants, Netherlands, NHS, NHS Continuing Care, NHS Funding, NHS Reform, Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), Poor Coordination, Prices Versus Rationing, Professor Andrew Dilnot, Public Attitudes and Expectations, Public Service Reform, Public Versus Private, Reform, Republic of Korea, Social Care, Social Care Funding, Social Care Reform, Social Demographics, Social Values, Spending on Local Authority Social Care, Sustainable Funding, Sweden, Taxation, United States, United States of America, Universality Versus Selectivity, USA
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Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England (King’s Fund)
Summary The King’s Fund has launched a commission to review whether the post-war establishment of separate systems for health and social care remains fit for purpose. The NHS, and proposals for social care, are undergoing significant reform; and this context … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, Northern Ireland, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged Adult Social Care Funding, Barker Commission, Beyond Dilnot, Call for Evidence: Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England, Care Funding, Changes Since UK Devolution, Commission on Funding of Care and Support, Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England, Community-Based Interventions, Continuing Care, Coordinated Care, Coordination, Demographic Changes, Demographics, Devolution (UK), Dilnot Commission and Government’s Response, Dilnot Commission Recommendations, Dilnot Commission Report on Funding of Care and Support, Evaluating Integrated and Community-Based Care, Funding of Care and Support (Dilnot Commission), Funding of Continuing Care, Funding Reform, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Funding, Health Reform, Home Care, Hospital Reconfiguration, House of Lords Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Kate Barker: Chair of Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England, King's Fund’s Time to Think Differently Programme, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions, National Minimum Eligibility Threshold, NHS Continuing Care, NHS Funding, NHS Reform, Nursing Homes, Partnership for Older People Projects (POPPs), Poor Coordination, Professor Andrew Dilnot, Public Service Reform, Reform, Residential Care Homes, Scotland, Social Care, Social Care Funding, Social Care Reform, Social Demographics, Spending on Local Authority Social Care, Sustainable Funding, Time to Think Differently Programme, Time to Think Differently Programme (King's Fund), Trends in Local Authority Independent and NHS Care Provision
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