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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. ADASS May 2022 survey: key findings.

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Cost of care analyses show councils lack funding to pay providers fair price, warn directors

Community Care

Councils lack the money to move towards paying providers a fair price for care, directors have warned, in the light of government-mandated analyses of the costs of services, directors have said. per hour gap for home care but suggested there was no gap for nursing home fees.

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DoLS: older people routinely having rights breached because of failure to tackle ‘huge’ backlog, warns charity

Community Care

Care homes or hospitals (‘managing authorities)’ must apply to councils or Welsh health boards (‘supervisory bodies’) to authorise a prospective or existing deprivation. “It seems a waste of resource.”

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Councils underfunded adult care services by at least £2.9bn in 2021-22, provider analysis suggests

Community Care

The exercises used data supplied by providers concerning their costs, broken down into areas such as staffing, premises, services and supplies and appropriate levels of profit, as of 2021. This was as part of a funding settlement ministers have said would provide councils with up to £2.8bn in 2023-24 and £4.7bn in 2024-25 for social care. .”

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It’s Time for a Change in How We Design, Develop, Test and Disseminate Empirically Supported Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

The new, much heralded model of primary care, called the “patient centered medical home” anticipates that all primary care teams will include a behavioral health clinician, among other ancillary health care professionals. There are two cardinal features shared by most of these community contexts, including primary health care.