All Social care articles – Page 95
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HSJ Knowledge
Joint working: health and local government
All eyes are on Chris Bull as he becomes the first person in the country to head up both a council and PCT. Jennifer Taylor reports on a revolution in joined-up working in Herefordshire
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News
Care services minister to host social care web chat
Care services minister Ivan Lewis will hold a web chat tomorrow at 2pm about the Department of Health's Dignity in Care campaign, how to champion social care and how to recruit more staff to the sector.
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News
social care eligibility
One in 10 councils are planning to tighten their eligibility criteria for access to care services next year. 15 out of 150 councils told the Commission for Social Care Inspection that they will limit the number of disabled and elderly people receiving care services, Mencap has learned. It also discovered ...
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News
Social care council chair remains
Sir Rodney Brooke is to remain as chair of the General Social Care Council until 31 October 2008.
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HSJ Knowledge
Supporting older people after discharge
A co-ordinated approach between healthcare agencies, housing associations and local authorities can make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable older people after they leave hospital, as Judy Peaker explains.
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News
Social care green paper: meeting the long-term care challenge
The government has still not answered crucial questions over its plans for long-term care of the elderly. With an ageing population, how will it fund a system set to cost a lot more? And will people still have to sell their homes to fund care? Mark Gould reports
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Improving nutritional care
New guidance on improving nutritional care has been published by the Department of Health and the Nutrition Summit stakeholder group.
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Long-term care reforms will seek fairer system
The government's review of long-term care could shift the balance of payment between the individual and the state.
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Comment
Simon Stevens on the spending review's hidden shallows
Although comprehensive spending review negotiations consume hundreds of person years in Whitehall, this effort is largely pointless, argues Simon Stevens
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Palliative care: 'a good death is part of life'
The hospice movement has made major advances in end-of-life care but more change is needed. With a government advisory group due to report, Mark Gould looks at the issues
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HSJ Knowledge
Guide to starting a health social enterprise published
Ten steps to starting a social enterprise in health and careis a new guide to the factors that should be considered by those thinking about setting up a health or care-related social enterprise.
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HSJ Knowledge
Care from the community
A redesign of the mental health support worker role values personal experience and diversity. Siobhan Chadwick and Alison James describe the development
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News
2,000 in move to own homes
Nearly 2,000 people with learning disabilities are to be moved into their own homes after the DH announced £175m in funding for primary care trusts to close NHS institutions.
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HSJ Knowledge
A look at long-term care
The national framework for NHS continuing healthcare comes into force on 1 October. Eve Francis gives a legal perspective on the implications of the framework for PCTs and NHS trusts and the pros and cons of the new regime
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News
Port of call needed for abused older people
A non-threatening 'first port of call' for older people suffering abuse should be established to help signpost them to services and support, according to a study into the abuse and neglect of older people.
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HSJ Knowledge
Prison mental healthcare: developing cultural competence
Link workers are enhancing mental healthcare for black and ethic minority prisoners.One such person, community development worker Irfan Mohammed, acts as a link worker for prisoners in Dorset.
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HSJ Knowledge
Time to step up to patient-centred care
Mental health clients using services in the community can become commissioners in their own right, says Ailsa Claire
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HSJ Knowledge
Empowering communities: mental healthcare in Oldham
Local initiatives can help to bring awareness of mental healthcare services to more groups.
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Reaching more carers at home
The Family Welfare Association has recruited home visitors with knowledge of a wider range of community languages to help mental health service users and their carers in the London borough of Tower Hamlets as part of its Carers Connect project.