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.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Regulations require them to consult the relevant local authority before making a decision about a person’s eligibility and to co-operate with the council about arranging for its staff, such as a social worker, to participate in the MDT.
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Community Care
JANUARY 30, 2023
Four in ten people whose discharge from hospital is delayed are awaiting a social care package, according to NHS data. The figure, revealed today in a government plan to reduce hospital pressures, came as council leaders criticised ministers for a narrative of “blaming” social care for delayed discharges.
Community Care
JANUARY 25, 2022
Social workers are under increased pressure because of Omicron-related staff absences elsewhere in social care and rising assessment workloads, sector bodies have warned. Vacancies across adult social care rose from 9.2% Mounting staff shortages. to 9.4% , from November to December 2021, up from 6.1%
Community Care
APRIL 24, 2024
Barriers to asset-based approaches Despite the benefits for people like Joanna, many local areas find it difficult to implement asset-based approaches within their social care systems. Project workers bring together local social workers, pharmacists and general practitioners in monthly locality hubs.
Community Care
APRIL 4, 2022
Social care leaders have voiced concerns over the ending of Covid-19 funding for the sector. Though the resources were always designed to be time-limited, social care bodies warned their removal carried significant risks for a fragile sector at the height of the latest Covid-19 wave. Social care honours colleagues lost to Covid.
Social Work Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Diana’s first job as a social worker at Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital earned her recognition by Glamour Magazine (September 1965) as being a “Girl with Go Jobs.” Other “Go Jobs” would include being Chief Social Worker at the Archdiocese of Newark Mt. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital.
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