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.
Community Care
JANUARY 13, 2022
“More than 50 million PCR and 142 million LFD kits have been delivered to care homes and we have invested a further £478 million to support safe and timely hospital discharges to get patients into the best place for their care and support to continue.”.
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Community Care
JANUARY 17, 2023
“None of us can be required to live somewhere without exercising a choice unless we’ve broken the law or there are safeguards under the Mental Health Act or DoLS [Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards]. Our concern is that with the focus on discharge above everything else,” she added.
Community Care
OCTOBER 21, 2022
The CQC welcomed the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) injection of £500m into the sector this winter to boost its capacity to respond to hospital discharges and tackle workforce shortages. Extra £500m for social care a ‘sticking plaster’, warn sector leaders. per hour per social care employee. BIA shortages.
Social Work With Adults
DECEMBER 19, 2023
[including the] graduate scheme for mental health social work students, ThinkAhead." We have also continued to provide support to retain and sustain the social work workforce, through provision of bursaries and placement fees, as well as the graduate scheme for mental health social work students, ThinkAhead.
Community Care
JANUARY 25, 2022
A BASW spokesperson said staff shortages in the wider workforce had been exacerbated by Omicron, resulting in a lack of provision “to facilitate hospital discharge or to support a preventative approach”. Members have said they have got worries about their mental health and their ability to provide services.
Social Work Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
She served on the Town of Leonia Juvenile Conference Committee for many years, and later health committees in Bergen County. 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 Thomas, Publisher.)
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