All Social care articles – Page 53
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SupplementsEnd of life care: The importance of home
How can we move terminally ill people out of hospital?
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SupplementsEnd of life care: ‘We do more with the same resource’
How services around the country are allowing more terminally ill patients to be supported at home
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HSJ Knowledge#Transformation2019: The key issues to tackle
Sue James looks at the transformation process ahead
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NewsExclusive: CCGs and councils set to pool more than £5bn in 2015-16
Councils and NHS commissioners are set to share pooled budgets of more than £5bn in 2015-16 under the better care fund, HSJ has learned.
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CommentGreater support is needed for social work with older people
Ensure social workers are properly supported
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HSJ KnowledgeCompassionate commissioning makes a real difference to patients
Support frontline teams
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Warning on care information 'maze'
The social care system is so confusing that it is driving some families to “breaking point”, a consumer watchdog has warned.
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NewsHospital discharge delays 'cost NHS £100m'
Delays in discharging patients from hospital while they are waiting for social care to be arranged are costing the NHS in England about £100m each year, a documentary claims.
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NewsNAO warns over adult social care cuts
Most of the “significant” drop in spending on social care has come from cuts to services, particularly for the elderly, according to the National Audit Office.
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BlogsThere was no 'golden era' to be a public sector worker
Despite the perpetual challenges facing the public sector, young people still want to be social workers, teachers and nurses
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NewsDH acknowledges 'first fall in life expectancy since 2003'
The Department of Health has acknowledged that life expectancy at 75 – one of its corporate indicators – fell in 2012 for the first time in many years.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhere is the evidence for promoting integrated care?
We are not measuring the impact on patients
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HSJ KnowledgeA lawyer's view of health and social care integration
How to ensure smooth care coordination
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NewsExclusive: Councils boost care fund pools
Several councils are planning to pool their entire adult care budget with the NHS in one of the biggest boosts to the integration of care between the two sectors to date, it has emerged.
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CommentCommissioners are the bridge builders for integrated care
CCGs are essential to integration working
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NewsCQC may 'outsource' market oversight analysis
The Care Quality Commission has said it currently lacks the skills to deliver a new duty of “market oversight” of the adult social care sector.
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HSJ KnowledgeA multitalented approach to delivering community care
All staff can become holistic practitioners
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NewsCouncils row with DH over deferred care bill
The Local Government Association has claimed a key part of the government’s social care reforms could cost councils five times more than estimated, triggering a row with the Department of Health.
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HSJ LocalCouncil takes back mental health service
Norfolk County Council is to take its social care service for working age adults with mental health problems back under its direct control after shortcomings emerged in the service which was run by a mental health trust.