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Families are the biggest providers of care, yet carers can find themselves cut out of decision-making and bounced between different bureaucracies Caring is a fact of life. Whether a partner falls ill, or a parent needs support as they grow older, or a child is born with a disability – it will affect...
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Cost-effective, person-centred, co-ordinated care requires support for local health systems so they can deliver the right care in the right settings, and develop new ways of working In recent years, the health and social care sectors have both faced a series of unprecedented challenges. These have included...
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Tue, May 14 2013
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Sponsored Q&A: how can higher education better prepare students for a patient-centered NHS? Join our panel of experts on Friday 17 May 12-2pm BST The inquiry into the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of patients at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust earlier this year, has left an unsettling nervousness...
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Mon, May 13 2013
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's director of health and social care discusses meetings, jargon and change Describe your role in one sentence: Over the years it's been one of a midwife – bringing new initiatives into the world of Nice . At the moment this includes establishing...
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Fri, May 10 2013
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Everything a social landlord does has the potential to improve local health and wellbeing. How can housing demonstrate its worth? The security afforded by a permanent, affordable and pleasant place to live is so fundamental to our health and wellbeing that most of the time we don't even acknowledge...
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Our latest livechat discussed how managers can implement technology to maximise scarce resources David Downing, director of health at SAS UK The focus should be on "proper" data use rather than confidentiality: you don't wantsome unknown body in the back office knowing all your medical...
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Joseph Fox, who suffered a mini stroke when he was 17, took these photos to illustrate survivors' experiences.
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Supporters say it helps those with dementia, but the sight of an older person cuddling an 'empathy doll' can disturb relatives The image of an older person cuddling and singing to a child's doll can be strange and disturbing, yet doll therapy is being used by a growing number of care homes...
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Integrating housing, health and care services can have a positive impact on costs and outcomes but despite growing evidence, why aren't more organisations doing it? When Midland Heart set up stall at two health conferences last year, delegates were confused about why the housing association was there...
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Government's swill see more pressure on adult social care departments, but could also lead to a new role in offering information and advice The shortcomings of the government's proposals for a cap of £75,000 (or £72,000 as is now being suggested) on individual liabilities for long-term care funding...
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Wed, Mar 27 2013
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Redefining care needs to save money is a worrying trend. This week our secret council officer shares their experience We all know that cash-strapped local authorities are making qualification for care funding ever more stringent, but what about one of their other duties: that of funding care and support...
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Tue, Feb 12 2013
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The report about the scandal at Mid Staffordshire hospital will have a far-reaching impact on the social care sector The long-awaited Francis report will be published on Wednesday – nearly four years after a Healthcare Commission report exposed how patients, families and the public had been failed by...
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Working by the sea has its perks, says Alice Pye, policy and communications officer at the Independent Living Association My role as a policy and communications officer for a user-led charity, the Independent Living Association , is really diverse and no two days are ever the same. Our core work focuses...
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The shadow health secretary says he wants to look to the best US providers when building an integrated care system The response to Andy Burnham's speech on Labour's health policy review is intriguing. With the coalition ostensibly banging the drum on integration as loudly as Burnham himself,...
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A report shows how stretched resources can be made to go further when health, housing and social care services collaborate For Bruce Wall, it's not about the money, it's about having his own life back. Wall, who is tetraplegic after a serious motorcycle accident nearly 20 years ago, says moving...
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