Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. Managing chaos, doing our best for patients and supporting each other: hospital social work under Covid.

Hospitals 285

Hospitals Social Worker Recovery Rehabilitation 285

Social Work With Adults

MARCH 19, 2024

This year's theme focuses on social workers' capacity to adopt innovative and community-led approaches. Before that I was in a short-stay MDT setting for assessments and reablement for adults following hospital discharge or community referral and other varied roles in the sector.

Hospital Discharges 69

Hospital Discharges Social Worker Adoption Disability 69

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

The Washington State Standard reports that Washington State is easing a policy that had required hospitals to automatically turn in to the family police the parents of any newborn “affected” by the mother’s substance use. I have a blog post about it. ● Of course, not everyone is happy about this.

Child Welfare 72

Child Welfare Hospital Discharges Welfare Foster Care 72