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Almost all councils lack funding to meet adult care costs this winter, warn directors

Community Care

They interventions reflect mounting adult social care workforce shortages, with a 55,000 rise in vacancies and a 50,000 drop in filled posts in 2021-22 , and waiting lists for assessments, care packages and reviews. Williams added: “The £500m discharge fund will not solve this, when it is finally distributed – and it is urgently needed.

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Bridging the gap – from hospital to home

Social Care

Here, Hayley shares her thoughts on how care staff can provide solutions to hospital discharge pressures and support admission avoidance strategies, including the redesign of traditional residential and nursing care provision, using the lessons from the past to inform the future.

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Diana Lee Guida Brown

Social Work Blog

Diana partnered on many social work journal articles such as “The Social Work Role in Hospital Discharge Planning” in Social Work in Health Care Vol 4, No.1 1 Fall 1978 and “A Model for Group Intervention with the Chronically Ill: Cystic Fibrosis and the Family” published both in Social Work and Pediatrics , Ruth B.

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Reinstate hospital social workers to improve discharge outcomes, PSWs urge Barclay

Community Care

The letter, which has been backed by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) England, warned that a lack of social work assessments prior to discharge was leading to people ending up in the wrong place, reduced independence and lower quality of life.

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