All Social care articles – Page 87
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CommentHelen Bevan on productive communities
I want to tell you about the learning emerging from Productive Community Services, which the NHS Institute will launch later this year.
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Dignity in health and social care
Some simple practical steps can greatly improve patients’ experience of dignity. But the new quality accounts must recognise this if it is to be taken seriously by frontline staff
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Learning disabilities services miss local needs
Learning disabilities commissioners are failing to provide the leadership required to meet the needs of local populations, regulators have found.
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HSJ KnowledgeTeenage pregnancy: mothers tide
A 10 year strategy has seen a reversal of the once surging rate of teenage pregnancy in many areas - but in others the numbers of teens choosing to have a baby remain alarming
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Personal health budgets: the patient is always right
Will individual health budgets help patients get the best care or leave the NHS struggling with increased costs and new ethical dilemmas? Kaye McIntosh reports
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Research points to benefits of individual social care budgets
Independent research has concluded that individual social care budgets can 'greatly' improve the quality of life for carers, the government has said.
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Dementia strategy: high hopes but who will pay?
The dementia strategy promises dedicated memory services in every town, but with only £150m over two years can primary care trusts afford the sophisticated teams this requires? Charlotte Santry reports
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Added values: improving learning disabilities services
People with learning disabilities are entitled to the same high quality healthcare as other patients, but serious cases of abuse and neglect suggest the NHS is far from meeting its obligations. Kaye McIntosh reports on the work now under way to turn this around
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Angela Greatley on children's mental health
Youth crime has rarely been out of the news headlines over the past year. Knife crimes, and particularly the tragic deaths of young people, have been very prominent and have led to a growing culture of disproportionate distrust and fear of teenagers.
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Michael White on gambling with public health
Health ministers have taken two steps along familiar paths in the past few days, one to promote smoke-free conditions for pregnant women, the other to create an 'alcohol-free childhood'.
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Improving NHS dementia care
With the long awaited dementia strategy finally here, the race is on to overcome the stigma surrounding the condition and spread the word about available treatments. Emma Dent reports
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NHS looking across the pond to Obama's cures
In Barack Obama's overflowing in-tray is a file marked 'healthcare'. Michael Macdonnell and Douglas Noble explore how he will increase coverage and control costs and what UK managers should watch
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Personalisation patchy says social care inspector
Most social care users are receiving a 'one size fits all' service, according to the Commission for Social Care Inspection's final annual report.
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Personalisation patchy says social care inspector
Most social care users are receiving a 'one size fits all' service, according to the Commission for Social Care Inspection's final annual report.
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Health inequalities in learning disabilities
Essential changes to learning disabilities services will have knock-on benefits for many other patients, who will gain from better approaches to communication and delivery
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Health and social care commissioner for London named
Former NHS Wales chief executive Ann Lloyd is to be health and social care commissioner for London, the Appointments Commission has announced.
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NHS top-up confusion persists
Campaigners are demanding clarity over whether patients using non drug-based NHS services will be able to 'top up' their care.
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Alan Johnson orders Baby P death probe
Health secretary Alan Johnson has ordered two reports into the way NHS organisations protect vulnerable children in the wake of Baby P's death in Haringey.
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Coalition launched to help vulnerable adults
Criminal justice charity Clinks, drugs charity DrugScope, homelessness agencies umbrella body Homeless Link and mental health charity Mind have formed a coalition to support socially excluded and vulnerable adults.
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Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust appoints new chief
Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust has appointed a new chief executive after its last one left and launched an unfair dismissal claim.