The Care Quality Commission’s annual assessment of the state of health and social care in England shows that quality ratings have been maintained overall – but people’s experience of care is determined by whether they can access good care when they need it.
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This sets out how we works with councils, and updates a version signed in 2011.
Working with councils help us regulate health and adult social care in England. This in turn which promotes high quality care and drives improvement. Our working relationship involves sharing information and taking coordinated action over health or adult social care providers.
Health inspectors say there has been a “significant improvement” in how public sector organisations work together to provide services for older people who need care in Stoke-on-Trent.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has revisited the city to look at how well older people – and specifically those over 65 – can move through the health and social care system following an initial inspection in September 2017.
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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.
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The three new areas we have now been asked to review and will report on individually by December are:
Staffordshire
Leeds
Reading
We have also been asked to choose three local system areas, from those that we carried out in our programme of work in 2017/18, to follow up on progress made.
The three follow-up areas are:
Stoke-on-Trent
York
Oxfordshire
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This guideline covers medicines support for adults (aged 18 and over) who are receiving social care in the community. It aims to ensure that people who receive social care are supported to take and look after their medicines effectively and safely at home. It gives advice on assessing if people need help with managing their medicines, who should provide medicines support and how health and social care staff should work together.
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.