All Social care articles – Page 56
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Comment'Care, care, care': a new mantra for the health service
Lessons from Essex’s Who Will Care? commission
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CommentCanterbury tale: making a success of integrated care
The New Zealand health organisation provides a template
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SupplementsQuality of care special report – Putting the past into the present
Learning about key episodes from the history they have lived through is just one way of truly empathising with dementia sufferers, as Claire Read explains
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SupplementsQuality of care special report – How to grow a new type of care
Quality is now about much more than clinical outcomes - it must also focus on tailoring care precisely to the individual
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HSJ PartnersHow Buckinghamshire is working towards seamless integrated care
The trust is using new technology for better patient transisitons
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HSJ PartnersHealth and social care integration – is there really a choice?
The drive for integration
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NewsHuge leap in number of bids to curb liberty
A record number of requests have been made by hospitals and care homes to deprive people of their liberty, figures show.
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NewsPHE says flu and cold weather to blame for spike in excess deaths
The national public health oversight body has said excess deaths during winter 2012-13 “would seem to be” due to “a combination of circulating influenza and cold weather”.
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NewsIntegration fund can be used to offset social care cuts
Councils will be allowed to use some of the government’s £3.8bn integrated care fund to protect existing social care services rather than fund service transformation, according to new guidance.
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NewsCare cutbacks put vulnerable at risk, experts warn
An in-depth study of social care provision has highlighted a “clear possibility” that local government funding cuts mean vulnerable people are not receiving the help they need and are being put at “increased risk” as a result.
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NewsHealth and care 'pioneer' judges named
The Department of Health has announced the names of the people who will decide which councils are given a place on its heavily over-subscribed scheme to “pioneer” integrated health and social care.
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CommentKim Holt: Daniel Pelka's story is a sadly familiar one
Lessons have not been learnt since the death of Peter Connelly
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: South Somerset's integration plan
Looking at Somerset’s Symphony integrated care project
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CommentKeogh review: A missed chance for integrated care
Social care is crucial to improving the NHS’s quality
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NewsBullying 'entrenched' at CQC
Senior health and social care professionals who join the Care Quality Commission are more likely to be subject to bullying than other employees, an internal review commissioned by the regulator has found.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow charities can ease the stress on the NHS
NHS organisations are unaware of what charities can offer them
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Unexpected rise in deaths among older people
Public health officials are closely monitoring death rates as mortality among older people has been unexpectedly increasing since the beginning of 2012, HSJ has learned.