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Minimum price of home care to rise by 12% next year, says provider body

Community Care

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

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£200m for NHS to buy short-term care placements to speed up discharge

Community Care

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. ” He also said six areas would also be trialling new solutions to reducing discharge delays, which could be rolled out if successful. Related articles.

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65,000 adults waiting at least six months for assessment as unmet needs mount, warns ADASS

Community Care

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.

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£10m boost to adult social care funding to tackle NHS winter pressures

Community Care

The funding will be allocated to areas deemed to have the greatest urgent and emergency care challenges this winter. “It will improve social care capacity, boost discharge rates and avoid unnecessary admissions, freeing up hospital beds and reducing waits for care,” said care minister Helen Whately.

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‘Things have never been so bad’ for people needing care, carers and staff, warns ADASS president

Community Care

. “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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One in eight councils moved to ‘life and limb care only’ for at least some people over Christmas, warns ADASS

Community Care

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.

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Hunt announces two-year care cap delay to help councils deliver 200,000 extra care packages

Community Care

Most of this will come via the Better Care Fund – the existing stream designed to support health and social care integration – to finance services to support hospital discharge, with the rest coming through a ring-fenced grant. ‘Disappointing’ delay to care cap.