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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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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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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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Labour's promising experiment 'barely got out of the lab', yet could teach us a lot about health and social care integration The Labour party's new-found enthusiasm for total integration of health and social care begs the question of what it did to advance such an agenda during 13 years...
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Fri, Jan 25 2013
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Hospitals are caring for those who cannot live independently, but it's costly and not accounted for in NHS budgets This will be a defining year for our NHS. Services must become more efficient if our current model of healthcare is to be considered sustainable. Recent comments from former health secretary...
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Mon, Jan 14 2013
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Social care, the NHS, housing and voluntary sector services must work together to make care more personalised An estimated 10 million people in the UK have a neurological condition, such as Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis or dementia, that impacts their lives. As many health and social care professionals...
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Newly published Dr Foster Hospital Guide shows lack of integrated care leads to overcrowded A&E departments In March this year, the Department of Health published the evaluation of the national integrated care pilots launched in 2009. The results were disappointing. The hoped-for reduction in emergency...
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Medical intervention is appropriate for people who are sick, but not normally for people who are well – whether they are disabled or not Norman Lamb has been the care services minister at the Department of Health for just a few weeks, and it seems that the integration of health and social care services...
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The Patient from Hell gets the impression that social care has taken on integration big time, but clinicians at all levels still hardly know what the word means Jeremy Hunt, apparently, baffled the Conservative party conference, with talk about the coming "integration" of the NHS . Yes, integration...
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The divide between health service and local authorities beggars belief, says health secretary NHS reforms are providing opportunities for integration between health and social care "like we've never had before", claims the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt. Speaking on Thursday at the National...
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Majority of GPs admit they do not understand non-residential care services, and local authorities are not clarifying alternatives The majority of GPs admit they do not understand all the social care options available to their patients, a new study reveals. Just 15% of family doctors who took part in...
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Wed, Sep 19 2012
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Countries are responding in different ways to the increasing number of older people, but should we be looking closer to home? There is widespread agreement that our systems of health and social care can no longer adequately meet the needs and expectations of the increasing number of people living into...
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A suitable home is vital for maintaining independence, so housing must be part of the debate around integrating health and social care When last month's social care white paper announced it would "set out new duties to … ensure that adult social care and housing departments work together"...
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