All Social care articles – Page 85
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CommentMichael White on the future of healthcare funding
For a politician in his situation, care services minister Phil Hope was in a remarkably cheerful mood when I caught up with him to find out how well - or badly - his department’s latest green paper had been received.
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NewsNICE issues guidance to help spot child abuse
Doctors and nurses will be given guidance to help them recognise children who are at risk of physical or sexual abuse, it has been announced.
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NewsNHS care indicators on new website
Two hundred care quality indicators are to be made available on a single NHS website with the enthusiastic backing of outgoing health minister Lord Darzi.
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NewsSocial care council chief suspended
General Social Care Council chief executive Mike Wardle has been suspended over claims that social workers are being employed who pose a risk to the public.
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NewsCompetition panel examines trust takeover bids
The co-operation and competition panel is investigating the takeover of a trust that was not going to succeed in becoming a foundation.
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NewsNHS Alliance voices fears on integrated care scheme
A proposed integrated care scheme between City Hospitals Sunderland trust and Church View Medical Practice is not in the best interests of patients, says the NHS Alliance.
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News‘National care service’ could pit councils against NHS
The long-awaited social care green paper has set out the government’s ambition for a national care service that could offer a basic minimum entitlement to all, regardless of financial means.
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CommentThe social care green paper: What's in it for the NHS?
NHS managers could be forgiven for asking why they should be interested in the government’s long-awaited Green Paper on adult social care. The prospect of swine flu, shifting political priorities and impending fiscal gloom might seem enough to worry about.
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HSJ KnowledgeSmoking cessation: how clinicians can break the habit
GPs and nurses who treat smoking as a clinical dependence and not just a lifestyle choice are more effective in referring people to cessation services.
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NewsCost of regulation merger reaches into millions
Health regulators have spent millions on failing IT systems, empty offices and redundancy payments.
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NewsRoy Taylor appointed flu services director
Efforts to ensure that NHS social care in England can cope with a flu pandemic have been strengthened by the appointment of a director of flu services.
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NewsGovernment will not back private care home protection
Efforts to improve human rights protection for children and the elderly in privately run care homes have been blocked by the government.
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NewsCouncils told to learn lessons from NHS on recruitment and retention
Councils should learn lessons from the NHS to improve recruitment and retention of social workers, the chair of the government’s social work task force said.
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NewsSocial care green paper delayed again
The long awaited social care green paper has been delayed again.
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NewsOrgan donations to strangers increase
More than 20 people in the UK have donated a kidney to a stranger, according to the Human Tissue Authority.
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NewsChildren's mental health needs 'neglected'
Scottish MPs claim young children suffering from mental health problems are being “neglected” because of a drop in health visitor numbers.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow community geriatricians are the linchpin of elder care
Community geriatricians can make a massive difference to older people’s lives and post hospital recoveries, so why are they so thin on the ground?
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HSJ KnowledgeChanging NHS end of life care for the better
Most people say they would prefer to die at home but many do not as end of life care has traditionally been neglected. But it looks as if things are finally starting to change
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NewsHome care to ease hospital bed demands
A Number 10 document setting out the government’s plans for the next 12 months will promise more care for people in their own homes.
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NewsAndy Burnham makes prevention a mission for the NHS
Health secretary Andy Burnham has said prevention of ill health will be a major plank of health policy on his watch.