All Social care articles – Page 52
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SupplementsNutrition survey: low priority given to malnutrition
HSJ and Nutricia survey highlights fears about priorities
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SupplementsPatient records: ‘We don’t need names’
Case studies on becoming accredited safe havens for patient data
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SupplementsLong term conditions: Will that telecare system deliver the promised savings?
Two trusts tell HSJ how they are approaching radical change
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SupplementsLong term conditions: Solving the case problem
Bringing economic rigour to business cases for change
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SupplementsEnd of life care: The importance of home
How can we move terminally ill people out of hospital?
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SupplementsEnd of life care: ‘We do more with the same resource’
How services around the country are allowing more terminally ill patients to be supported at home
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HSJ Knowledge#Transformation2019: The key issues to tackle
Sue James looks at the transformation process ahead
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NewsExclusive: CCGs and councils set to pool more than £5bn in 2015-16
Councils and NHS commissioners are set to share pooled budgets of more than £5bn in 2015-16 under the better care fund, HSJ has learned.
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CommentGreater support is needed for social work with older people
Ensure social workers are properly supported
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HSJ KnowledgeCompassionate commissioning makes a real difference to patients
Support frontline teams
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News
Warning on care information 'maze'
The social care system is so confusing that it is driving some families to “breaking point”, a consumer watchdog has warned.
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NewsHospital discharge delays 'cost NHS £100m'
Delays in discharging patients from hospital while they are waiting for social care to be arranged are costing the NHS in England about £100m each year, a documentary claims.
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NewsNAO warns over adult social care cuts
Most of the “significant” drop in spending on social care has come from cuts to services, particularly for the elderly, according to the National Audit Office.
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BlogsThere was no 'golden era' to be a public sector worker
Despite the perpetual challenges facing the public sector, young people still want to be social workers, teachers and nurses
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NewsDH acknowledges 'first fall in life expectancy since 2003'
The Department of Health has acknowledged that life expectancy at 75 – one of its corporate indicators – fell in 2012 for the first time in many years.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhere is the evidence for promoting integrated care?
We are not measuring the impact on patients
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HSJ KnowledgeA lawyer's view of health and social care integration
How to ensure smooth care coordination
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NewsExclusive: Councils boost care fund pools
Several councils are planning to pool their entire adult care budget with the NHS in one of the biggest boosts to the integration of care between the two sectors to date, it has emerged.
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CommentCommissioners are the bridge builders for integrated care
CCGs are essential to integration working