Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The minimum price commissioners should pay home care providers will rise by 11.8% next year due to increases in the national living wage and the impact of inflation on services’ costs. Pay care staff ‘much more than national living wage’ – .

Home Care 212

Home Care Hospital Discharges Disability Hospitals 212

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Councils will be able to bid from a pot of £40m – up from £30m – for cash to help prevent hospital admissions and speed up discharges from wards. The funding will be allocated to areas deemed to have the greatest urgent and emergency care challenges this winter. “Every bit of extra funding helps.”

Hospital Discharges 228

Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Disability 228

Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Reduced service capacity Workforce shortages had resulted in reduced service capacity. The number of registered care home beds shrank by 0.6% This risked leaving people in deprived areas, who are more dependent on state services, going without care, it warned.

Home Care 328

Home Care Government Disability Hospitals 328

Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

Over half have taken the “least acceptable” actions in response to the situation including prioritising life-sustaining care, being unable to undertake reviews of risk, relying on family members, carers or providers for these or leaving vulnerable people isolated for longer periods than usual.

Hospital Discharges 262

Hospital Discharges Hospitals Disability Home Care 262

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

More on adult social care pressures. Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’. CQC joins call for care staff pay boost to prevent ‘tsunami of unmet need’. Experienced care staff earn 6p an hour more than newcomers. an hour in the national living wage (NLW) from April 2022. .”

Government 244

Government Mental Health Social Worker University 244