All Social care articles – Page 5
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NewsPatients ‘warehoused’ and ‘lost in the system’ amid rush to discharge
More and more older people are being “warehoused” in inappropriate care beds, condemned unnecessarily to long-term care, and “lost” to health and care services, due to the rush to discharge from full hospitals and a lack of community rehab services, leaders have warned.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most read integration stories of 2022
As we get ready to say goodbye to 2022, HSJ takes a look back at the 10 most read integration stories of the year.
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CommentSocial care providers must have a say in ICS decisions
The eighth first in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. ICSs provide a significant opportunity to do things differently and overcome some of those historical challenges by bringing together key partners to develop and ...
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NewsVulnerable patients facing long delays for beds amid funding rows
Vulnerable patients, including some children, have faced long delays for a suitable bed as organisations argue over whose responsibility it is to fund and deliver their care, HSJ understands.
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CommentNHS leadership should be the role model for social care
The fourth in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. The gulf between healthcare and social care is exemplified by the fact that social care is devolved to councils to administer says author Andrew Johnston
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CommentSocial care staff must provide more healthcare
The third in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Chief nurse for Adult Social Care, Deborah Sturdy, examines delegated healthcare in a post-pandemic world
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CommentHow to work with care providers to improve hospital discharge
The second in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Here’s a list of things to help social care providers step up and create a dependable discharge process that has people, not systems, at its ...
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CommentICSs should prioritise not for profit social care
The first in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Professor Rayner, a regular national and international speaker, shares her thoughts on why social care should be for people, not for profit
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CommentImproving the NHS’s relationship with the care sector
If there is one truth that all NHS leaders have come to understand during the last few years, it is that the service’s fate is irrevocably linked with that of the care sector.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Clear signs of extreme pressure
Following Jeremy Hunt’s appointment as chancellor, HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: ‘Am I in prison?’
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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NewsSpecial measures label ‘hurts people’, says trust CEO
The ‘special measures’ label unquestionably hurts staff morale, according to the chief executive of a trust that is hoping to move out of the highest level of oversight for the first time in five years.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: What’s the future of ICSs?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Still trying to tackle discharge delays
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsRevealed: ICSs with biggest discharge problems
The five integrated care systems with the most beds occupied by patients who are waiting to be discharged are all in the South West region, new figures have revealed.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Cutting staff numbers in ICBs
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentICSs must not focus on ‘NHS priorities’ alone
Chair of the County Councils Network Tim Oliver comments on the progress being made by ICSs from a local government perspective.
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NewsRevealed: Ambulance waits quadruple in handover hotspots
Ambulance waiting times for stroke and suspected heart attacks have quadrupled in four parts of England since before covid-19 – whereas others have only grown by half – underlining the severe impact of long accident and emergency handovers.
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NewsNHS England gets half of funding it warned could be needed
The chancellor has announced the NHS will receive an additional £3.3bn in each of the next two years, raising the overall budget by 2 per cent in real terms.
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NewsNHS needs OBR-style staffing forecasts, says Pritchard
The NHS’s forthcoming workforce plan will have to be updated with regular forecasts after it has been published to ensure it stays “credible”, Amanda Pritchard said today.