Posted in News on Jan 26th, 2010
The Guardian reports on the success of 146 schemes that aimed to reduce the NHS’s elderly care costs by promoting healthier living and dealing with problems at an early stage. The Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPPS) ran across 29 English councils between 2006 and 2009 and promoted joint working between social services and healthcare [...]
Posted in News on Jan 20th, 2010
The John Rowntree Foundation has published a report criticising the failure of the UK’s four governing bodies to learn from their different approaches to social care since devolution. Entitled ‘The impact of devolution’, the report specifically looks at how long-term care funding has been affected in the first decade of devolution. Although the [...]
Posted in News on Jan 14th, 2010
Fiona Phillips has made a second Dispatches programme about her father’s battle with dementia and her own struggle to raise awareness of the condition. Since the first programme was aired in January 2009, Ms Phillips has become increasingly involved in campaigning for more help and support to be made available to dementia patients and [...]
Posted in News on Dec 31st, 2009
Wales has launched a consultation process on the future of its social services. The consultation will be managed by a new body, set up in December 2009, called the Independent Commission on Social Services. The Commission’s role is to investigate and report back on how the Welsh Assembly Government should reshape social care [...]
Posted in News on Dec 21st, 2009
Health secretary Andy Burnham has made the second Parliamentary reading of Labour’s Personal Care at Home bill, which proposes providing free home care to all elderly people that require it. As was the case with the first reading, charities have questioned how the £670 cost of funding the care will be met, with Age [...]
Posted in News on Dec 10th, 2009
The Care Quality Commission (CQC), the new regulatory body for social care in England, has published a damning report on its recent investigation into the quality of the country’s care homes. A sixth of all homes inspected were found to be providing substandard care to more than 80,000 elderly people. And the eight [...]
Posted in News on Dec 10th, 2009
The Care and Social Services Inspectorate for Wales (CSSIW) has published its annual report on the Welsh social care service. Although it acknowledges that service levels are improving, the report criticises the variations between Welsh regions in both quality of care and access to services. The CSSIW reports that service users are becoming [...]
Posted in News on Dec 7th, 2009
The Times has revealed that Gordon Brown’s recent pledge to provide free social care to England’s 400,000 neediest people will come at the expense of vital funding into diseases such as dementia. Questions were raised over how the Government will pay the £670 million bill for providing the free care as soon as the [...]
Posted in News on Nov 30th, 2009
Wales has launched a consultation period on the reform of its social care structure and funding system. Entitled ‘Paying for Care’, the consultation Green Paper can be downloaded or read from a new, dedicated website www.payingforcareinwales.net. The website will be kept updated with the latest developments in and responses to the consultation process [...]
Posted in News on Nov 30th, 2009
The Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) and the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) have published a review of the impact of the National Service Framework (NSF) for older people in Wales, launched in 2006. The review is taking part in two phases over a two year period so that sufficient coverage is given [...]
