The Green Paper, originally planned to be published in the Autumn of this year, is now planned to be published in Summer 2018. The Government wish to take ‘the time needed’ to work with care leaders to shape its Green Paper on social care. The Cabinet Office Minister Damian Green, said: – “An ageing population …
A recent report by the Children’s Society has said local authority children’s services are being reduced to crisis-driven firefights because of central government funding cuts. The most hardest hit part has been early intervention services, designed to prevent problems escalating and children suffering a crisis. Due to this issue, councils have only been getting involved …
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A recent Freedom of Information request has shown current ambulance handover targets are failing, with a huge rise in the number of patients stuck in ambulances outside hospitals. The amount of patients waiting over an hour to be transferred from an ambulance to A&E has doubled also. ‘Bed-blocking’ has also been on the rise with …
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Figures from NHS Digital have shown DoLs reaching their highest level. Figures reached 217,235 during 2016/7, the highest since they were introduced in 2009. Concerns from charity managers have arisen with Gavin Terry, policy manager at the Alzheimer’s Society saying that the figures proving “an unacceptable number of people are being left in limbo by …
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Under a new scheme set out by the Government, care providers have been given a year to identify how much back-pay they owe ‘sleep-in’ care workers, and a further three months to pay off the arrears. Charities have criticised this announcement, particularly Mencap who warn that organisations signing up to the scheme could be ‘writing …
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Yesterday marked the end of phase one of CQC’s review of children and young people’s mental health services. It follows the Prime Minister’s request for CQC to conduct a review of quality and access across the system of mental health services for children and young people. CQC used three sources of information as the foundation …
A campaign group, supported by Leigh Day, has lodged a judicial review against NHS England, claiming the contract for accountable care organisations breaches the Health and Social Care Act 2012. NHS England have said the “mistaken campaign” was an attempt to “frustrate the move to more integrated care”. Earlier this week Leigh Day submitted review …
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According to a new study, older people who take a combination of at least five different medications are 21 per cent more likely to fall over. NICE recommends that people with multimorbidity (which is defined as mainly taking 10 or more different drugs) are given tailored care. But, researchers from the Leicester Diabetes Centre studied …
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If the financial threshold for state support increases, conservative council leaders have warned that county councils cannot afford the hit by a £308m rise in care home costs. According to The County Councils Network (CCN), new research has shown that raising the threshold would push far more people into state care than local authorities could …
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Despite the National Audit Office (NAO) finding that the CQC has improved as an organisation and now provides better value for money, they say it still needs to overcome some ongoing issues with the timelines of some of its regulation activities. The report says that while most healthcare providers and inspectors think the CQC’s judgments …
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