The Guardian

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Many fit people are not being discharged because of a lack of adult home care or community health provision The number of patients stuck in hospital in England despite being medically fit to leave nearly doubled between February and November this year. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

New health secretary examining proposals for care homes to look after patients whose discharge is prevented by lack of social care Thérèse Coffey is considering handing hundreds of millions of pounds to care homes to help free up hospital beds as part of her emergency plan to tackle the growing crisis in the NHS. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

MAY 13, 2023

As healthcare standards rise, hospitals are more dilapidated and affecting patient care, says an impassioned doctor Patient safety at risk in crumbling hospital Boris Johnson promised to replace Most readers will almost certainly be aware of the government’s plans to build 40 new hospitals in England. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

John Griffiths says he was cured in three weeks, but stuck in hospital for 16, while another reader says the hard-working carers for their disabled son deserve to be paid more.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Doctors and nurses fear they will be unable to cope with flu, Covid and cost of living crisis, bosses say Doctors and nurses are “absolutely frightened and petrified” about how bad this winter will be for the NHS in England, hospital bosses have revealed.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 22, 2023

City council aims to undercut private operators and house children with complex needs rejected by other homes Manchester city council is setting up two special children’s homes to house the increasing number of vulnerable young people who end up stuck in hospital because no residential providers will take them.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. That’s a big increase. We need radical action – and fast.”.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

One reader on their elderly mother being made to stay in hospital when she wants to be at home with family support Re patients stuck in hospital, ( ‘A doctor told me I could be here for months’: patients stuck in England’s hospitals, 13 November ), my 98-year-old mother was admitted to treat an infection. Continue reading.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Under section 13 of the MHA , councils must arrange for AMHPs to consider cases in which an application may need to be made to admit a person to hospital under the act. Once beds had been identified, AMHPs often faced further delays in securing transport to take the person to hospital.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

In a further change yesterday, the Lords voted to require NHS bodies to consult current or prospective carers of hospital patients before discharge to determine whether they are willing and able to provide care, if they consider it would be unlikely to be safe for the person to be discharged without care. ”

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Social Work With Adults

JULY 5, 2023

The aim was to put an end to the five 'giant evils' in society: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease. For years, social workers have worked alongside health professionals in hospital settings.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

While Barclay will be focused on the significant pressures on health and social care as winter approaches – evidenced by mounting vacancies, ambulance waiting times and numbers of delayed discharges from hospital – his appointment comes with the government mulling a one-year delay to its adult social care charging reforms.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

So, I spent my 18 th birthday sectioned under the mental health act in hospital. An ambulance will arrive later today,” my handsome doctor gently explained, “to take you to hospital.” I’m going back to yet another hospital. Anorexia was the solution to all the insanity in the world, society, my life.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 6, 2023

I personally do not ever plan to work in the hospital without wearing a mask/PPE (personal protective equipment),” says Levy. Read the full article at the NASW Social Work Advocates magazine here.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

“As a society we have asked a huge amount of carers, and during the pandemic we asked more again,” she said. At the same time, much of the resource it has provided is directed towards clearing hospital beds, rather than the vision of social care as a vehicle for better lives.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 30, 2024

Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Chang holds a position as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine , as well as a role as an Assistant Attending Psychologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

However, given the cultural norms that ought to be observed in Turkiye and Syria, IASSW suggests that the Red Crescent Societies (affiliated to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies or IFRC) can also receive such donations. Such total devastation requires generous forms of support and solidarity.

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Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

I’m sat at the hospital with a client, wondering what I should do. This is longer term work One colleague I had didn’t like the work because it was quite long term, compared to other places like the hospital. Its Christmas Eve. It’s nearly 8pm now. Should I go home to take a break, or should I continue staying? But duty calls.

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The Guardian

APRIL 27, 2022

I felt every emotion you could think of when I heard the news that the government’s early policy on care homes in England – when elderly and vulnerable people were discharged from hospitals into care homes without being isolated – had been ruled unlawful. The sadness was because it was a reminder that many of us had lost people needlessly.

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The Guardian

JUNE 8, 2023

Its failings block more hospital beds with elderly patients who can’t be released because there’s nowhere for them to go. All this is laid out graphically in a report, Support Guaranteed , published today by the Fabian Society. More people needing care find rising barriers of ever-higher criteria, leaving them with none.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

Social workers are essential team members in hospitals, primary care, specialty care, and community-based organizations. Over the past decade, the ACA has expanded opportunities for interdisciplinary models of care. That includes social workers in health institutions and community-based settings.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Most cases not caused by decision to discharge patients from hospital without testing, says former health secretary Care workers have hit back at claims by the former health secretary Matt Hancock that the Covid virus was brought into homes by infected staff. Continue reading.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 2, 2024

Hospitality - Many studies have shown that chefs and hospitality workers experience high levels of stress in their jobs. Legal - A 2019 survey by the Law Society found that over 90% of solicitors in the UK reported feeling stressed, with heavy workloads and long working hours being identified as key stressors.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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The Guardian

APRIL 11, 2023

Prof Andrew Cooper suggests that the pain of knowing that children are harmed is too great to bear, and the perceived incompetence of social workers functions as a defence for society against having to tolerate this horrifying knowledge.

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The Guardian

JUNE 8, 2023

A government scheme will recruit volunteers to run errands , in a desperate attempt to lessen the problem of people stuck in hospital because they can’t be safely discharged. A far more substantial plan from the Fabian Society sets out a roadmap for what it hopes will be a Starmer-led government.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 8, 2023

Other countries are looking on appalled as the UK’s failure to reform social care has left its health service struggling to survive It is 6am and a dozen ambulances are waiting to offload their patients, but the local NHS hospital is already full. Every bed in the emergency department is occupied. It’s terrible. It’s absolutely dire.

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Relias

MARCH 3, 2024

” Though it’s easy to understand why this is important, I’d like to take the time to innumerate a few of the many ways social workers help our society. Helping COVID-19 patients in the hospital. Social work is essential Social work is one answer to the issues of inequity we are facing as a society.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 2, 2022

Nicola, whose 24-year-old son has been detained under the Mental Health Act since September 2017 at Cheadle Royal hospital in Cheshire, said his care is “worse than being in prison” and “people wouldn’t treat an animal” as badly. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Exclusive: discharge funding to relieve hospital delays promised by Thérèse Coffey in September has not materialised Hospitals and care homes have not received a single penny of a £500m emergency fund promised by the government to prevent the NHS becoming overwhelmed this winter, the Guardian has learned. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Digital monitoring of patients at home eases the pressure on hospitals. But it has some serious drawbacks Virtual wards may sound like something out of a dystopian sci-fi book, but they’re a very real policy initiative being expanded by the government to ease demands on critical care in UK hospitals.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Over years of instruction, the APA has continually cited the use of culturally responsive practices as a necessity, not solely an option, to proactively address the unique needs of our increasingly diverse societies 1. Further, the importance placed on connection in collectivistic societies is thought to foster vital support mechanisms (e.g.,

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The Guardian

JANUARY 15, 2023

Lib Dems condemn ‘scandalous situation’ as local authorities turn to agencies amid shortage of care spaces for people leaving hospital Private brokers are making millions of pounds a year finding care home beds for NHS patients who are fit to leave hospital.

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Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

As they consider new ideas to raise patient satisfaction, healthcare leaders must have an understanding of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scoring system that evaluates these efforts. The data is then tabulated to create the HCAHPS score. The financial impact of HCAHPS scores can be significant.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 22, 2022

If society offers poverty wages for demanding and skilled work, a staffing shortage should not be a surprise The impact of the dire staffing shortages in care homes, as revealed in a Guardian analysis published at the weekend, makes for distressing reading. Who can blame them?

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Experts say loss of 50,000 workers exposes ‘absolute crisis’ facing system still reeling from impact of Covid and Brexit The social care workforce has shrunk for the first time in almost a decade despite rising demand and bed congestion in hospitals fuelled by a lack of care places.

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The Guardian

MARCH 27, 2022

Ruth Wilkinson on the support needed to help those with long Covid get back to work, Tim Walker on the damage done to hospitality and theatre and businesses, and Doris Bridgeman on the end of free lateral flow tests We went out to clap for our NHS heroes and praised the fortitude of care home workers. million (2.4%

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