Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2023

This will include investing in home care in Warwickshire, rehabilitation and reablement in Leeds and additional support for people with dementia in Greater Manchester. NHS to get most of £500m winter adult social care funding. Minimum price of home care to rise by 12% next year, says provider body.

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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. ADASS May 2022 survey: key findings.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Staff shortages are driving a “rapidly deteriorating situation” for people needing care and their carers, directors warned today. Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’. across adult social care in October 2021, from 6.2% in March, according to Skills for Care figures.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) issued the warning after councils published the results of costs of care exercises they were required to undertake by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) by 1 February. per hour gap for home care but suggested there was no gap for nursing home fees.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

In relation to home care, a third who previously received it were now getting no support. But while councils may have exposed themselves to legal challenge, no such litigation took place – to the authors’ knowledge – besides adverse decisions from the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

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Community Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

The money is on top of £500m already earmarked for ICBs and councils to clear hospital beds, part of which was allocated last month and which the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said would be well spent on home care, in order to reduce delayed discharges. Risk of inappropriate placements. as of October 2022.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Readers respond to an article by Simon Hattenstone about finding the right care arrangements for his 93-year-old mother Simon Hattenstone’s article ( I didn’t want anyone else to look after Mum – until I realised what she wanted, 27 December ) almost exactly mirrors my mother’s story.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Exclusive: almost one in four people unable to be discharged were waiting for home care, data reveals A “perilous” shortage of homecare workers is the biggest reason thousands of people are languishing longer in hospital than needed, driving up waiting lists and making people sicker, figures reveal. Continue reading.

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

The letter follows concerns from social care leaders about the government’s allocation of £200m to the NHS this winter to help reduce delays by block-booking care home placements for up to four weeks. This is in addition to £500m made available for a wider range of services to reduce delays, including home care.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In a snapshot survey of members in November, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services found mounting waiting lists for assessments and personal budgets and a 164% increase in commissioned home care hours left undelivered between May-July and August-September.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 15, 2022

Figures obtained by the Observer show thousands of people not receiving paid-for services because of lack of workers Nearly 9,000 people in England are waiting for home care services according to figures obtained by the Observer , but the true figure is likely to be much higher with the situation having worsened dramatically since last spring.

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Community Care

APRIL 8, 2022

Vacancies continue to be worst in the home care sector, reaching 13% last month, up from 12.8% and care workers 12.2%. Also, employers have been permitted to recruit care workers from abroad since February – but only if they earn £10.10 in February and 7.6% in May 2021. this month, to £9.50 an hour.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

to 9.5% , they were below levels for nurses (14.6%), personal assistants (13.1%), home care staff (13%), registered managers (12.8%) and frontline care staff generally (11.8%) , as of April 2022. While vacancy rates rose for council adults’ practitioners from 2020-21, from 7.5%

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The Guardian

MAY 27, 2023

Charities and disabled people’s organisations (DPOs), including Mencap, Scope, the MS Society, Inclusion London, Dimensions, and WinVisible, told the Observer that disabled care users are being pushed into severe financial hardship with some forced to go without essential home care because they can’t afford the fees.

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Disability Home Care 74

Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Care staff ‘showing utmost compassion and commitment’ Townson said her honour was “humbling” and that supporting and representing home care through the pandemic and beyond had been an “absolute privilege” She added: “May the spotlight shine on all home care workers, managers, and leaders, who dedicate themselves (..)

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Loss of more than 40,000 staff over past six months prompts move to recruit overseas Thousands of additional care workers are to be recruited from abroad to fill chronic gaps in the workforce, the government has announced after figures showed more than 40,000 social care staff had left the sector over the last six months.

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Home Care Government 126

The Guardian

JANUARY 30, 2023

Staff filed records claiming far more care was given, evidence suggests A dementia home care agency spent as little as three and a half minutes on taxpayer-funded care visits and filed records claiming far more care was given, according to evidence seen by the Guardian.

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Home Care 81

The Guardian

MARCH 13, 2022

Indigenous children make up 41% of all kids in out-of-home care in NSW, while changes recommended three years ago have been ignored Get our free news app ; get our morning email briefing When Lizzie Jarrett was 12 years old, she walked into her grandmother’s home and met a man she didn’t recognise. “I

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Home Care 98

The Guardian

APRIL 14, 2022

The vast and systemic problems facing aged care were exposed during the pandemic, including in home care, where workers have faced increased demand for services, huge staff turnover, abuse from families, and continuing low rates of pay.

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Home Care 73

Relias

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The increased pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented never-before-seen growth opportunities for home health agencies and their workforce, as Bill Dombi, President of the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), noted in a December 2021 webinar titled The State of Home Health.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

At the same time, providers’ recruitment and retention difficulties were exemplified by the fact there was a drop of 50,000 in the number of filled roles in the sector from 2020-21 to 2021-22, despite rising demand for care. ‘Step change’ needed including improved pay. Photo: Kate Terroni/CQC.

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Government Hospital Discharges Hospitals Mental Health 277

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

‘Red lights are flashing’ warns care boss, in advance of the government’s social care white paper Social care services across England are “rapidly deteriorating”, with waiting lists soaring and councils struggling with care home closures, social services chiefs have warned. Continue reading.

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Home Care Social Services Social Services 93

The Guardian

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Many fit people are not being discharged because of a lack of adult home care or community health provision The number of patients stuck in hospital in England despite being medically fit to leave nearly doubled between February and November this year.

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Hospitals Home Care 97

Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In 2021-22, the number of vacancies across adult social care rose by 55,000 (52%), while the number of filled posts fell by 50,000. The DHSC said that, in most areas, prioritising home care would have the greatest impact on reducing delayed discharges to social care.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Therapist Home Care 258

The Guardian

MARCH 4, 2022

Anas Sarwar believes totally integrating social and health care is essential to NHS reform Anas Sarwar , the Scottish Labour leader, has pledged to spend nearly £1bn to provide free residential care for all elderly people and free home care in a bid to address Labour’s slump in support.

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Home Care 75

Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The government’s own estimates showing just short of 40,000 jobs being lost in the care home sector from its introduction of mandatory Covid-19 vaccination for staff. Home care providers predicting a significant exodus of staff from the introduction of mandatory vaccination in domiciliary care from April next year.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Having staff, at all levels, take the IPC lead in care homes, home care or supported living settings is vital. The network will be made up of frontline social care staff from care settings across England. Image supplied by freepik.com]. Who are the champions?

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Home Care 108

Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

million hours of home care [that] couldn’t be delivered in the first quarter of this year. ” In September, the government announced £500m for adult social care to help speed up hospital discharges – to relieve NHS pressures – and bolster the care workforce.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Mental Health 257

The Guardian

MAY 4, 2022

Providers and Unison tell Sajid Javid workers are changing jobs or turning to food banks as they cannot afford to stay at home Care homes in England are demanding the return of full pay for staff isolating with Covid, saying the withdrawal of government funding has pushed carers to work while infected or to turn to food banks.

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The Social Care Elf

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Jill Manthorpe discusses a qualitative study which examines the experiences of frontline workers in care homes and home care. The post Telling the tale: working in social care during the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Home Care Nursing Home 52

The Guardian

JUNE 15, 2022

We’d like to hear from NHS and social care workers, patients and their relatives about the impacts of shortages Nearly 9,000 people in England were waiting for home care services at the beginning of this year, according to figures obtained by the Observer , amid an acute staffing shortage in social care.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

While this just benefits care home residents, the DHSC said home care users would benefit from its decision to set the same upper capital limit (£100,000) for all types of care. For home care users and other care home residents, it would have been £27,000 (£32,000 in 2023).

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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Council fee rates – these have been a longstanding issue for care home and domiciliary care providers. The Homecare Association recently calculated that the minimum price of an hour of home care would reach £25.95 However, it said that “too many” councils paid far less than the true cost.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

This was laid bare by a National Care Forum survey, also released today , showing members in the home care and residential care sectors were running vacancy rates of 18% in addition to 14% absence rates last week. to redress the situation over the winter and relax immigration restrictions for the sector.

Hospital Discharges 289

Hospital Discharges Hospitals Mental Health Home Care 289

The Guardian

MARCH 22, 2022

The findings come from a report published on Wednesday by the Australian Aged Care Collaboration (AACC), a group of six aged care peak bodies. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading.

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Home Care 70

Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BBC: 60,000 adults chased by councils over social care costs Photo: AdobeStock/Prostock-studio A BBC report has revealed that councils in England chased over 60,000 disabled adults for social care debts last year.

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Social Worker Therapist Home Care Disability 216

Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

‘Disappointing’ delay to care cap. In its response, think-tank the King’s Fund gave a qualified welcome to the adult social care funding boost but criticised the delay to the funding reforms, on the grounds that deferring the cap would leave many people continuing to face unpredictable care costs.

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