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Integrated teams required to deliver healthcare in care homes
Multi-disciplinary teams should be set up to ensure that care home residents get the healthcare services that they need, says Professor Finbarr Martin, president of the British Geriatrics Society.
22 May 2012
Social workers promised reduced information burden
Social workers would be able to spend more time with clients under plans to improve data sharing with the NHS, set out in a 10-year information strategy today.
21 May 2012
Half of learning disability services not meeting core standards
Half of the learning disability services inspected by the Care Quality Commission in the wake of Winterbourne View are not meeting essential standards on safeguarding residents and caring for them. The CQC said the findings were a cause for concern.
18 May 2012
Social workers to gain bigger role in planning services
Social workers will have a bigger service planning role and adult social care funding will be increased under proposals to merge health and social care in Scotland, claims the country's government.
10 May 2012
Adult social workers still have big role, says new Adass chief
Social workers have a big role to play in adult services but should no longer be deployed in roles where their skills are not required, says Sarah Pickup, the new president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.
18 April 2012
Care homes urged to share good practice
Care homes are being urged to share examples of good practice to help shape wider improvements to services.
17 February 2012
NHS safeguarding training squeezed by anti-terrorism strategy
NHS training in safeguarding is being squeezed by requirements to train staff in identifying adults at risk of becoming terrorists, it has been claimed.
02 April 2012
Social workers 'marginal' to integrated care pilots
Social care professionals were 'marginal' to flagship government pilots designed to integrate support for people with long-term conditions, an evaluation has concluded.
22 March 2012
Care home residents lack access to healthcare
Care home residents are struggling to get access to GPs and routine medicines, and more than half of primary care trusts do not offer access to the full range of health services residents may need, a report warns today. (Image: Rex Features)
07 March 2012
'Fundamental change needed to improve elderly care'
Residents and relatives should be given a direct say in the running of care homes, according to a report examining how care for the elderly could be improved. (Image: Rex Features)
29 February 2012
Social workers urged to support distressed cancer carers
Social care professionals have been urged to increase assessment levels for carers of cancer patients after a survey found half were receiving no support and a similar proportion were experiencing mental distress.
27 January 2012
NHS must spend more on adult social care, say MPs
The NHS should spend more on adult social care to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of support for people with long-term conditions, MPs said today.
24 January 2012
Social workers 'must join renewed effort to integrate care'
Social care professionals should be at the heart of multi-disciplinary teams in every area to manage the care of people with long-term conditions and make a reality of integrated care, the government has been told.
05 January 2012
Hospital dementia care blighted by inadequate staff training
Inadequate staff training and an impersonal approach to care is blighting the experiences of dementia patients in hospitals, a major national study has concluded.
16 December 2011
Key long-term conditions policy branded a failure by NAO
Outcomes for people with long-term neurological conditions have stalled or deteriorated, six years on from a key policy to improve support for the group and despite significantly increased funding for care.
16 December 2011
Adult social care and health to be integrated in Scotland
Adult social care and health will be integrated in Scotland to help tackle delayed discharged from hospital and cost-shunting between councils and the NHS, under plans outlined yesterday by the country's government (Image: REX features).
13 December 2011
Staff cuts and overcrowding blight care for detained patients
Staff cuts and overcrowded wards are blighting the care of detained mental health patients, the Care Quality Commission has warned.
09 December 2011
Health and Munro reforms to be integrated
The Department of Health is working with the Department for Education to integrate health reforms with proposals from Eileen Munro's review of child protection.
17 November 2011
Dramatic rise in child protection vacancies in NHS
Vacancy rates in NHS child protection posts are rising dramatically a survey of local safeguarding children boards has found.
21 October 2011
Patients 'stripped of dignity' in hospitals, warns CQC
Patients are being "stripped of their dignity" on many hospital wards because of poor staff attitudes, inadequate leadership and stretched resources, the Care Quality Commission warned today. (Picture posed by model, Rex)
13 October 2011
