A one-off additional £150m will be allocated to Primary Care Trusts in England, for immediate transfer to local authorities for investment in social care services which also benefit the health system.
This guide produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence is aimed primarily at practitioners working in various settings for organisations involved in safeguarding. It is intended to serve as a pointer to the law and to how it can be used.
The Better Care Better Value indicators compiled by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement identify potential areas for improvement in efficiency whilst improving quality. They can help to stimulate ideas on where commissioners should focus their attention in re-designing and shifting services away from the traditional setting of the hospital and out towards community based care.
This resource pack jointly published by the Housing LIN and ADASS is intended to support local strategic commissioning, planning and investment decisions to help transform and improve the range of housing choices for older people.
The December 2011 edition of the Living with dementia magazine is available to download from the Alzheimer’s Society website.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s inquiry into the home care system in England reveals disturbing evidence that the poor treatment of many older people is breaching their human rights and too many are struggling to voice their concerns about their care or be listened to about what kind of support they want.
We have published video footage and presentations from the series of half-day workshops we ran recently to assist providers and commissioners with the exciting but challenging task of developing services to support people with dementia at home.
The South West Dementia Partnership has commissioned the United Kingdom Homecare Association to research and deliver the findings of this important report.
The South West Dementia Partnership is running a series of half-day workshops to assist providers and commissioners with the exciting but challenging task of developing services to support people with dementia at home.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia (APPG) has issued a controversial challenge to the NHS to reduce hospital beds by at least 10 per cent and free up £1 billion for community based dementia services.