I’ve just had a quick flick through shadow health secretary Andy Burnham’s speech to the Labour Party conference and there are some pretty interesting lines on social care, including floating the idea of “full integration of health and social care”. Here are the key bits: We can get better results for people if we think [...]
I’ve been struck by the number of times in recent months that I have heard social care leaders make the following argument: Social care is chronically under-funded. Preventive and rehabilitative social care funding saves considerable sums for the NHS through reduced hospital bed days. The government has introduced annual transfers of NHS funding to councils [...]
So the verdict on what happened at Winterbourne View has been delivered through the serious case review (SCR) published on Tuesday, alongside separate reviews on the roles of NHS commissioners and the Care Quality Commission. But what were the chief practice lessons for social workers? Where was the social work? Social workers performed two key roles in [...]
Perhaps the most difficult task facing councils in their management of local adult social care systems is balancing the need to reform and reshape services, while continuing to serve those in great needs on declining budgets. A sustainable system for the future can only be achieved by doing all you can to keep people who [...]
Community Care held its latest dementia conference last week, which I hope proved useful to all who attended. There were some significant – and familiar – messages around the need to improve training for care staff in dementia awareness and to really work on the person-centredness of care for this group.One thing that struck me [...]
Learning disabled people still face institutional discrimination at the hands of the NHS, Mencap warned today, five years after it laid bare the issue with its Death by Indifference report. This focused on six cases of people the charity had said had died prematurely due to NHS failings, and sparked an independent inquiry into healthcare [...]
There’s an interesting report out today from the King’s Fund about the costs (to patients and the NHS) of treating physical and mental health problems separately given the large number of people with long-term conditions who also have mental illnesses.It finds 46% of people with mental health problems have a long-term condition and 30% of [...]
Another day, another report on integration for the government, this time from the NHS Future Forum (the advisory body set up to inject common sense into the government’s NHS reforms). The proposals are pretty similar to those put out in last week’s report from think-tanks the King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust: strong support for [...]
The new NHS operating framework has been published today with some interesting things to say about mental health and specifically on boosting talking therapy rollout. It says that not only is greater integration needed in the NHS between health and social care but across primary and secondary healthcare between mental and physical health. It also says that [...]
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