All Social care articles – Page 92
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HSJ Partners
Guide to integrated working
The Care Services Improvement Partnership's five networks publish a range of material that sets out to inform and advise people working in health and social care on a range of issues, including integration, personalisation, telecare and housing. Chris Mahony gives an overview of one recent publication below
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HSJ Partners
CSIP factsheet on administering medicines
The Care Services Improvement Partnership's housing learning and improvement network has published an online factsheet to help practitioners, commissioners, care service managers and housing managers in extra care housing deal with issues surrounding administering medicines.
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News
Alan Johnson launches national social care debate
Health secretary Alan Johnson has launched a six-month debate on the future of social care and support services. Regional events will be held to gather views on how to create an affordable system targeted at those most in need.
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HSJ Knowledge
View from the floor: dementia services
Janice Bond is a senior occupational therapist with Sussex Partnership trust. She works on a joint health and social services support scheme for people with dementia
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News
Social enterprise investment fund enters round two
The Department of Health has opened the second round of bidding through its social enterprise investment fund.
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News
Self-care principles published
A set of core principles to support self-care have been published by the Department of Health.Skills for Health and Skills for Care have worked with service users and carers to promote choice, control, independence and participation of people who use services.
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News
Lib Dems scrap free social care promise
The Liberal Democrats have formally ditched their policy of free social care in England. The party has opted instead for a co-payment system based on the one set out by Sir Derek Wanless for the King's Fund.
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News
Age Concern survey points to care quality concerns
Eight out of 10 people are very concerned about the quality of personal care they would get if they needed help with everyday tasks such as getting out of bed, washing and dressing, according to a survey by charity Age Concern.The figure rises to nine out of 10 people aged ...
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Free Scottish care comes under review
The Scottish policy on free personal and nursing care is sound but needs better planning for the future to ensure its long-term sustainability, a review has found.The review sets out a 12-point action plan that includes addressing the current funding gap, standardising assessment and delivery and ensuring costs are accurately ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Understanding the Health and Social Care Bill
John Witt and David Firth explain the changes that trusts can expect when the new Health and Social Care Bill comes into effect later this year
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News
Insurance scheme could pay for social care
The NHS Confederation has said a compulsory insurance scheme may be the best way to fund social care for the elderly.
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Wales announces autism plans
The Welsh Assembly has announced wide-ranging efforts to tackle autism and improve services for those affected by the condition.
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Comment
David Peat on facing up to health inequalities
I suppose it is human nature to try to focus on the feel-good sides of life and shield ourselves from difficult or unpalatable realities.
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News
Concern at slow response to review of brutal murder
The chair of an inquiry into the brutal murder of a man with learning disabilities has said she is 'hugely disappointed' by the NHS's failure to address the problems it identified.
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Comment
How the NHS is failing vulnerable adults
What does the murder of a man with a learning disability have to do with the NHS? Not as much as it should, according to Margaret Flynn, who conducted an official inquiry into the death of Steven Hoskin in Cornwall
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News
Care Quality Commission: a chance to peep under the primary care carpet
With the launch of the Care Quality Commission, GPs will be directly regulated for the first time. The government concedes that the number of reported patient safety incidents is too low, so how closely should the new inspector look, asks Charlotte Santry
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News
Special measures removed after abuse trust improves
Cornwall Partnership trust has been lifted out of special measures for 'substantial progress' in addressing serious failings in services for people with learning disabilities.
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News
Health and social care grants announced
Voluntary and community care organisations in England will share a £24m pot of government grants, care services minister Ivan Lewis announced today.
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Ombudsmen rule against mental health trust
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Partnership trust and Buckinghamshire county council failed to provide an acceptable standard of care for a man with severe learning disabilities, a joint investigation by two ombudsmen has found.
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HSJ Knowledge
High-impact changes in health and social care
In the green paper Independence, Well-Being and Choice and the white paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, the government focused on seven positive outcomes for people using health and social care services.