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. That was the message from the Homecare Association as it announced that the minimum for 2023-24 would be £25.95 , up from £23.20
Community Care
MAY 13, 2022
The figure, dating from the end of February, is six times that recorded in September last year, and comes with most directors reporting they have had to prioritise assessments for cases of suspected abuse or neglect, hospital discharge or reablement following a temporary residential care stay. Government must fund £10.50
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Community Care
JANUARY 8, 2023
The government will give the NHS an extra £200m to buy short-term care placements to help relieve the pressures on its beleaguered emergency care system. Barclay – NHS under ‘enormous pressures’ Health and social care secretary Steve Barclay (credit: HM Government). Related articles.
Community Care
OCTOBER 21, 2022
The government must fund better pay and training for adult social care staff to tackle a deepening workforce crisis that is undermining the quality of services. Extra £500m for social care a ‘sticking plaster’, warn sector leaders. per hour per social care employee. per hour per social care employee.
Community Care
DECEMBER 19, 2022
An increase in adult social care funding next year should deliver “tangible improvements” to services, the government told councils today. The government said it would be providing an additional £2bn in social care grant in 2023-24 compared with 2022-23, though most of it is not new money. in real terms (9.2%
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
The government has increased funding for adult social care to help tackle NHS pressures this winter by £10m. 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.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
. “It is also adding to the endless pressures we see with ambulances and hospitals, and adding to the pressures we see in our communities, [including] more people requesting help with mental health and domestic abuse, [and] 2.2 million hours of home care [that] couldn’t be delivered in the first quarter of this year.
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