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Open access. Recent qualitative research suggests that changes to the way eligibility for welfare payments is determined in the UK may be detrimental to claimants with mental illnesses. No large-scale analysis has been undertaken to date.
Personalised Care will benefit up to 2.5 million people by 2024, giving them the same choice and control over their mental and physical health that they have come to expect in every other aspect of their life. This document confirms how we will do this by 2023/24. It is the action plan for the rolling out personalised care across England.
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Professor Steve Field, Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care, said: “Our review of health and social care services in the county found that older people had varied experiences of health and social care services. There were variations in what was available to them depending on where they lived, which meant that people’s experiences of care and the support they received were inconsistent.
The Care Quality Commission has published its findings following a review of health and social care services in Leeds.
This report is one of a number of targeted local system reviews looking specifically at how older people move through the health and social care system, with a focus on how services work together.
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Open access. Dementia presents a significant challenge to health systems and to the person and family affected. Home care is increasingly seen as a key service in addressing this challenge in a person-centred and cost-effective way. Intensive Home Care Packages (IHCPs) were introduced in Ireland to provide personalised and high levels of support for people with dementia to remain at home or be discharged home from hospital, and to build on the work of the HSE & Genio Dementia Programme. This realist evaluation is concerned with real world questions of feasibility and effectiveness; specifically understanding in what ways IHCPs work, how optimum outcomes are achieved, for whom and in what contexts do IHCPs work best.
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC), has published a report bringing together key findings and recommendations for change, following the completion of 20 local authority area reviews exploring how older people move between health and adult social care services in England.
The National Audit Office (NAO) has today published a report assessing the challenges preventing health and social care from working together effectively. In a move to encourage the government to create a long-term plan for a sustainable, joined-up care sector, the head of the NAO, Amyas Morse, is urging further and faster progress towards a service that centres on the needs of individuals, meets growing demands for care and delivers value to the taxpayer.
In the second in our series We need to talk about social care, Kim Woodbridge-Dodd looks at the integration of mental health and social care, the benefits behind this and the challenges faced on the ground.
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...The first in this series is a briefing by Mark Trewin (Service Manager - Mental Health, Bradford Metropolitan District Council and Social Care Advisor, NHSE Adult Mental Health Team) who is talking about reducing out of area placements. The briefing offers readers the chance to think about what works, the role social care has to play and who to contact to share ideas.
With the creation of the first fully integrated post at director level, the new role builds on the existing partnership between the county council and local mental health trust which sees social workers from the council operate as part of integrated mental health teams.
Public Accounts Committee examines the integration of health and social care programmes, including the Better Care Fund, which aim to improve the delivery of care needs.
This House of Commons Library briefing paper analyses recent policy and debate on the integration of NHS-provided healthcare and local authority-provided social care. This has been a key policy priority for successive Governments, with the aim of improving patient care and saving money for the NHS and local authorities
The AMHP service comprises a central unit and five locality teams. AMHPs work flexibly across the whole county, travelling as needed to deal with local spikes in referrals.
During quieter times they are encouraged to work on development of themselves and their service. Taking time off in lieu is also something the management team insist on, helping ease the pressure of the job.
This quality standard covers all young people (aged up to 25) using children’s health and social care services who are due to make the transition to adults’ services. It includes young people:
with mental health problems
with disabilities
with long-term, life-limiting or complex needs
in secure settings
under the care of local authorities.
Dudley contract for multispecialty community provider includes mental health services as well as adult social care, LD and physical healthcare services. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
Demands are increasing on health and social care. State of Care – our annual overview of health and social care in England – looks at the trends, highlights examples of good and outstanding care, and identifies factors that maintain high-quality care.
Little research has been done into the effectiveness of mental health supported accommodation services. We did a national survey to investigate provision and costs of services and assess service user quality of life and outcomes across England. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The long-term costs of supporting UK citizens with severe mental health problems far outweigh the costs of treatments, yet the scarcity of research on this issue is in marked contrast to the many studies of clinical interventions. In The Lancet Psychiatry, a study by Helen Killaspy and colleagues1 of supported accommodation services in England provides some sorely needed information. They assessed 22 residential care, 35 supported housing, and 30 floating outreach services across the country in terms of service quality and costs and service users' quality of life, autonomy, and satisfaction with care. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Results are published today of annual patient-led assessments of non-clinical elements of care, such as catering services, cleanliness and waiting facilities.
Come and visit our first pop-up library at Severn Fields, Shrewsbury 19th July 11.00am-3.00pm. Join the library, borrow and return books, get help finding information and evidence, set up an Athens account, find out what the library can do for you and your team.
There is limited evidence to support the creation of new roles to deliver integrated care. Indeed the available evidence suggests that working with the existing workforce to create more flexible and multi-skilled teams that can work across boundaries is as, if not more, effective, says a report published today by The King’s Fund.
NEP, supported by Essex County Council, will partner with charity Think Ahead to provide on-the-job training for highly-talented graduates and career-changers to become mental health social workers. The Think Ahead programme opened for applications last year and immediately became one of the country’s most competitive graduate career options, with more than 20 applicants for each place on the programme.
With the focus on relationships in Mental Health Week, NHS England has put the spotlight on Sheffield where they are helping nurture relationships between adopters, foster carers and children to improve their adoption outcomes and mental health.
Almost 50 adopted children have had a smoother transition to their new homes thanks to a fresh £85,000 scheme in Sheffield helping assess and support their mental health needs.
The Pre-Adoption Service, run by Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, hosted a successful unique year-long trial to reduce the number of failed adoptions and children needing mental health services in the future.
For over a year now, hundreds of different providers of health and other public service providers have been working hard to create new models of care in their local vanguards.
Most of these providers, who are working to wrap very different services around the public’s needs, have come across two very different experiences. The first is that they know this is important both for the public and for the future of public service to create person centred coordinated care, and the second is that this is very hard.
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These 3 documents are part of the ‘Social Work for Better Mental Health’ initiative. They will help to improve social work across the mental health sector and to make sure the value of social work in improving mental wellbeing is recognised.
The LGA has launched a series of case studies that illustrate the positive work councils are undertaking with their local partners to support people living with autistic spectrum conditions (ASC) in their communities.
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